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
- The Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Unisys Ltd
- Value
- £312,243
- 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
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 073284-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 Sep 2025
- Published12 Nov 2025Published 47 days after the contract date
Description
HOLMES stands for Home Office Large Major Enquiry System. It is a secure, cloud-based application used by UK police forces to manage complex and large-scale investigations.
About the supplier
Unisys Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 00103709).