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
- Multiverse Group Limited
- Value
- £600,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Education & training · Education and training services (CPV 80000000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 059605-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
-
- Contract date1 Feb 2026
- Published24 Jun 2026Published 143 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of Digital Knowledge and AI Apprenticeships
About the supplier
Multiverse Group Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 10027474).