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
- Probation Board Northern Ireland · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Withheld for security purposes SME
- Value
- £2,169,442
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Official notice
- 081965-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date27 Aug 2026
- Published27 Aug 2026Published the same day
Description
The Probation Board of Northern Ireland is placing this voluntary transparency notice to alert economic operators of its intention to modify its electronic case management system contract to allow completion of works in accordance with Regulation 72 (1) (b) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Additional information: To ensure continuity of service to the PBNI for their critical business functions, the PBNI require a modification of this contract value to ensure continuity of this critical service. The. Authority will be relying on Regulation 72(1) (b) Additional works, services or supplies. “have become necessary” and were not included in the initial procurement and a change of supplier would not be practicable (for economic, technical or interoperability reasons) and would involve substantial inconvenience/duplication of costs. This modification is for a total of £137,425 leading to a revised contract total of £2,169,442.
About the supplier
Withheld for security purposes: every public contract they have won.