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
- Greater Manchester Combined Authority · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Nominet UK
- Value
- £12,200
- 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
- 058669-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date22 Jan 2025
- Published22 Sep 2025Published 243 days after the contract date
Description
This agreement provides Public Services Network (PSN) Domain Name Server (DNS) services that reconcile website names and their underlying IP addresses and allow the government and the wider public sector to send digital information securely. This is a below threshold procurement. Contracted by Greater Manchester Combined Authority for Greater Manchester Police.
About the supplier
Nominet UK: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03293859).