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
- Sunderland City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Rimini Street Inc.
- Value
- £426,464.05
- 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
- North East
- Official notice
- 050816-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date29 May 2026
- Published29 May 2026Published the same day
Description
Sunderland City Council has awarded a contract for the provision of an Application Managed Support Service. The contract will be for a period of 19 months, with the option to extend by a further 12 months. The above contract was awarded via the Government Commercial Agency (GCA) G-Cloud 14 Framework (RM1557.14).
About the supplier
Rimini Street Inc.: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company FC029541).