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
- Leicestershire County Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Barclays Bank plc
- Value
- £3,236,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Financial & insurance services · Banking and investment services (CPV 66100000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 047045-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 Jun 2025
- Published7 Aug 2025Published 56 days after the contract date
Description
Procurement of supplier hosted cloud solution for merchant acquiring and payment gateway services.
About the supplier
Barclays Bank plc: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01026167).