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
- Transport for Greater Manchester · Transport Authority
- Supplier
- Manuka AI Ltd SME
- Value
- £2,047,082
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Software programming and consultancy services (CPV 72200000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 085707-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Jul 2025
- Published23 Dec 2025Published 175 days after the contract date
Description
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) currently sources an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDWS) Service to enable the operation and maintenance of a secure, compliant, data warehouse service that is supported by Commercial Off-The Shelf (COTS) applications including Snowflake, Matillion, Lamda and Tableau software components, (integrated through a supplier developed 'bootstrap' software component). The Service extracts, loads and transforms data out of designated partner sources for placement in a centralised EDWS repository. EDWS data is critical to the operation and management of TfGM Ticketing (and other) Schemes. Following a procurement exercise to call-off services against Framework RM1557.14 (G-Cloud 14), TfGM has sourced a service that will enable continued operation and maintenance of an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDWS) Service that is supported by Commercial Off-The Shelf (COTS) applications including Snowflake, Matillion, Lamda and Tableau software components. Over the contrac…
About the supplier
Manuka AI Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 10403421).