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
- Value
- £131,282
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 062500-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date25 Apr 2025
- Published6 Oct 2025Published 164 days after the contract date
Description
NEC are the only provider of the Charter solution they have Intellectual property rights to the solution we can not purchase this via any other supplier. This is a direct award under the PDS Covert Management framework
About the supplier
NEC Software Solutions UK Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00968498).