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
- Suppliers
- Not named
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Industry specific software package (CPV 48100000)
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Official notice
- 063005-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date10 Sep 2025
- Published7 Oct 2025Published 27 days after the contract date
Description
This notice relates to modification of an existing contract for Acquisition and Implementation of a Billing and Customer Management System for a Gas Supply Company entered into between FES and Lognet on 10 December 2019 (contract). That modification has been undertaken pursuant to Regulation 88(1)(b) of the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 and has been necessary for the reasons set out below. The description of the modifications that have been made to the contract (including those made under a previous amendment agreement) is as follows: Contract Term The contract commenced on 10.12.19 for an initial term of 3 years with options for FES to extend by 2 periods of 12 months each. Having exercised both options, the parties entered into an amendment agreement on 23.12.24 ("Amendment 1") which extended the contract to 31.12.25. The parties then entered into a further amendment agreement on 10.09.25 ("Amendment 2") which extended the contract by 3 years with an option for FES to extend …