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
- Office for National Statistics · Non departmental government body
- Supplier
- Torchbox Ltd SME
- Value
- £1,057,968
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- IT services · Software-related services (CPV 72260000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 082544-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date23 Feb 2024
- Published1 Sep 2026Published 921 days after the contract date
Description
Content Management System - Wagtail expertise The scope of this requirement is to provide access to Wagtail expertise that can fill our knowledge gap. ONS requires additional support to complete the website transformation.
About the supplier
Torchbox Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03983354).