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
- North Northamptonshire Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Firebrand Training SME
- Value
- £461,700
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Education & training · Education and training services (CPV 80000000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 049230-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Jun 2025
- Published15 Aug 2025Published 63 days after the contract date
Description
North Northamptonshire Council (hereafter referred to as "NNC") have procured a suitably qualified and experienced Supplier to provide both of the following apprenticeship standards as one apprenticeship programme: • Data Technician Level 3 - (ST0795) • Data Analyst Level 4 - (ST0118) Across the period 2025 to 2029 NNC expect to enrol up to: 18 (eighteen) apprentices on to the Data Technician Level 3 apprenticeship (ST0795) and 18 apprentices on to the Data Analyst Level 4 apprenticeship (ST0118).
About the supplier
Firebrand Training: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04097204).