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
- Education Authority · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Version 1 Solutions Limited SME
- Value
- £1,200,000
- 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
- Northern Ireland
- Official notice
- 059622-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date3 Feb 2025
- Published25 Sep 2025Published 234 days after the contract date
Description
The contract is in place to provide an Outsystem Development and Managed Service. This has been awarded via a direct award call-off from G-Cloud 14 framework. Additional information: The contract is a direct award Call-off from G-Cloud 14 framework.
About the supplier
Version 1 Solutions Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03438874).