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
- Cleveland Fire Authority · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- BT Group PLC
- Value
- £77,982.47
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Networking, Internet and intranet software package (CPV 48200000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 063762-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date15 Sep 2025
- Published9 Oct 2025Published 24 days after the contract date
Description
FortiSwitch 124F-FPOE (370w) FortiSwitch 148F-FPOE (740w) FortiSwitch 624F (5G) FortiSwitch 648F (5G) FortiAP 231K FortiAP 431G FortiAP 432F
About the supplier
BT Group PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04190816).