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
- Chelmsford City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Softcat PLC
- Value
- £767,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 078585-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Oct 2025
- Published1 Dec 2025Published 61 days after the contract date
Description
Awarded and procured via the KCS Software Products and Associated services framework.
About the supplier
Softcat PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02174990).