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
- Advance Housing and Support Ltd · Registered Society
- Supplier
- Mri Software Limited
- Value
- £460,000
- 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
- North East
- Official notice
- 064930-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 Jun 2026
- Published9 Jul 2026Published 13 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of cloud‑based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and associated managed services to support the organisation's core IT systems. The contract covers the supply, operation and management of secure, scalable hosting environments, including compute, storage, networking, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery capability and service management functions. The supplier will provide ongoing technical support, incident management, performance optimisation and compliance with relevant security and data protection standards. The services are required to ensure resilient, high‑availability hosting for business‑critical applications and to enable future scalability in line with organisational needs.
About the supplier
Mri Software Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03341304).