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
- The Police & Crime Commissioner for Sussex · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Trading System Support
- Value
- £42,439.15
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 060085-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 Sep 2025
- Published26 Sep 2025Published 14 days after the contract date
Description
a particular supplier having intellectual property rights or other exclusive rights, only that supplier can supply the goods, services or works required, and there are no reasonable alternatives
About the supplier
Trading System Support: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 08472301).