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
- Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Big Blue Door SME
- Value
- £30,000
- 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 West
- Official notice
- 068265-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date20 Jul 2026
- Published20 Jul 2026Published the same day
Description
3- Year contract 01/07/2026 - 30/06/2029 NWADCS is a regional improvement service hosted by Stockport Council and funded by the 24 North West authorities. There is a Collaborative Agreement in place to cover the arrangement including information sharing. NWADCS have a website www.nwadcs.org.uk that was developed in 2022 as a regional resource for participating authorities and providers.
About the supplier
Big Blue Door: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07958927).