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
- University of Bradford · Higher Education
- Supplier
- FDM Group Limited
- Value
- £62,500
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Systems testing services (CPV 72254100)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 085676-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Dec 2025
- Published23 Dec 2025Published 22 days after the contract date
Description
Planning and implementation of a Test Automation framework, initially focused on key web-based features of our internal SITS system.
About the supplier
FDM Group Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02542980).