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
- Gentoo Group · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Makutu
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Data-processing services (CPV 72310000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 074233-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date10 Nov 2025
- Published17 Nov 2025Published 7 days after the contract date
Description
Deployment of a Microsoft Fabric-based Data & AI Platform for Gentoo Group. This includes configuration of Fabric environment, governance framework, data ingestion pipelines, and Power BI dashboards, enabling trusted reporting, automation, and readiness for advanced analytics. This is a 2 year contract with 1 x 12 month extension available. Maximum contract value over full 3 years £450k - as this is based on time and materials and the need to use the service this is an estimate and £450k would be the maximum should we use all services provided as per schedule 2 of the CCS order form.
About the supplier
Makutu: every public contract they have won.