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
- Southampton City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Better Group Limited trading as BetterGov SME
- Value
- £1,979,750
- 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 East
- Official notice
- 054264-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date2 Sep 2025
- Published5 Sep 2025Published 3 days after the contract date
Description
Social Care Case Management Implementation Support Services
About the supplier
Better Group Limited trading as BetterGov: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 10241361).