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
- Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Softcat PLC
- Value
- £7,501,485
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Enterprise resource planning software package (CPV 48451000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 078001-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date31 Jul 2026
- Published17 Aug 2026Published 17 days after the contract date
Description
The Council awarded a contract under the Government Commercial Agency's (GCA) Back Office Software 2 (BOS2) framework agreement using the framework's direct award mechanism. The requirement is for a cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution to support the Council's core business functions, including financial management, procurement, budgeting, human resources, reporting, workflow management and associated corporate services. The scope of the contract includes software licences/subscriptions, implementation and configuration services, training, hosting, support, maintenance and associated professional services. The Council determined that the awarded supplier's solution met its requirements and represented the most appropriate framework solution in accordance with the terms and award provisions of the BOS2 framework agreement.
About the supplier
Softcat PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02174990).