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
- Gateshead Borough Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Pulsar Group Plc
- Value
- £35,886
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 088085-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Sep 2026
- Published17 Sep 2026Published 16 days after the contract date
Description
Gateshead Council has awarded a call-off contract under the G-Cloud 14 Framework Agreement (RM1557.14) for the provision of a Media Relations and Communications Management System. The solution will provide a centralised platform to support the Council's communications and stakeholder engagement activities.
About the supplier
Pulsar Group Plc: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04799195).