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
- Halton Borough Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Beam Up Ltd SME
- Value
- £130,625
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- 090939-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Aug 2026
- Published25 Sep 2026Published 28 days after the contract date
Description
Beam Notes is an AI-powered platform for public sector organisations. Beam Notes helps frontline staff save significant time by automating administrative tasks such as transcription, report generation, and data extraction from documents and conversations.
About the supplier
Beam Up Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 10637337).