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
- Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Kainos Software Ltd SME
- Value
- £73,000,000
- 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
- South West
- Official notice
- 052806-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Jun 2024
- Published1 Sep 2025Published 430 days after the contract date
Description
This was a call off competition via ccs framework RM6100 Technology Services 3.
About the supplier
Kainos Software Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company NI019370).