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
- Liverpool City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Ascendant Solutions Ltd SME
- Value
- £100,000
- 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
- North West
- Official notice
- 057277-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date19 Aug 2025
- Published17 Sep 2025Published 29 days after the contract date
Description
The Authority has awarded a contract for the provision of cloud based credit bureau services to support the effective collection of local taxes and other debts owed to the city council.
About the supplier
Ascendant Solutions Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 10038449).