Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Ofqual · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Govforms Limited SME
- Value
- £100,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Form-making software package (CPV 48325000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 044151-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 Mar 2026
- Published13 May 2026Published 48 days after the contract date
Description
Platform fees, transaction costs and assurance fees. Additional information: Awarded via shortlisting and request for further competition using CCS/GPA framework agreement ref: G-Cloud 14 for cloud based software
About the supplier
Govforms Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 11376568).