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
- Post Office · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Softwire Technology UK Limited
- Value
- £1,573,350
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 046155-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date2 Mar 2026
- Published20 May 2026Published 79 days after the contract date
Description
Design and development of the Post Office customer application.
About the supplier
Softwire Technology UK Limited: every public contract they have won.