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
- Ofsted · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- IFF Research Ltd SME
- Value
- £715,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Agriculture & forestry products · Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products (CPV 03000000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 057482-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date11 Sep 2025
- Published17 Sep 2025Published 6 days after the contract date
Description
Design and delivery, by an independent supplier, of a multi-stage, mixed-methods evaluation to assess the implementation and impact of Ofsted's revised Education Inspection Framework
About the supplier
IFF Research Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00849983).