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
- Ministry of Defence · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Capgemini UK PLC
- Value
- £18,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Office automation software development services (CPV 72212920)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 067832-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date10 Jun 2026
- Published17 Jul 2026Published 37 days after the contract date
Description
Example of the Services the Supplier shall provide are listed below. Actual Services to be provided by the Supplier to the Authority will be specified and agreed within Statement of Works. - Build upon existing, and support the introduction of new, digitalisation hyper-automation and intelligent automation capabilities across Defence - Support the objectives of the Buyer's Automation Garage - Create showcase for digitalisation, hyper-automation and intelligent automation capabilities across Defence - Bring external expertise and experience to demonstrate longer term potential for digitalisation - Understand developing trends in technology and the capacity for these to be deployed in Defence. - Support development of strategies and plans - Provide Services to analyse, develop and deploy digital products - Provide and support training and knowledge transfer in digital technologies
About the supplier
Capgemini UK PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00943935).