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
- The Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- SSS Public Safety Ltd
- Value
- £259,894.50
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Industry specific software package (CPV 48100000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 083905-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date17 Jul 2026
- Published4 Sep 2026Published 49 days after the contract date
Description
The Provision of a Computer aided dispatch system for Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service. This covers the implementation of the system and the ongoing support, hosting and licencing of the system. This contract has been awarded under the provisions of Regulation 32 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Most notably Reg 32 (5)b and Reg 32 (9). This award is also aligned to the published transitional arrangements for contracts following the transition to the Procurement Act 2023. These arrangements stated: Negotiated procedure without prior publication ('direct award') procurements commenced under the previous legislation 9. Where a contracting authority has contacted a supplier with the intention of entering into a contract with it under any of the following provisions, the procurement is deemed to have been commenced for the purposes of the transitional and saving provisions and the relevant previous legislation will continue to apply: a. regulation 32 of the PCR;
About the supplier
SSS Public Safety Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 13052116).