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
- Scottish Prison Service · National or federal agency/office
- Supplier
- Bridgeall SME
- Value
- £282,900
- 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
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 070769-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date15 Aug 2025
- Published4 Nov 2025Published 81 days after the contract date
Description
SPS procured and awarded this project via the Scottish Government DPS for Digital Technology and Cyber Services- Lot 1 (Digital Technology Projects and Services). An Invitation to Quote (ITQ) was published by SPS via the Public Contracts Scotland - Tender (PCS-T) portal and was made available to all suppliers on the DPS. Quote responses were then evaluated by the SPS in accordance with the ITQ Guide to Scoring.
About the supplier
Bridgeall: every public contract they have won.