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
- Reading Borough Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Cotality UK Limited SME
- Value
- £23,676
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Data management services (CPV 72322000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 096191-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date5 Oct 2026
- Published12 Oct 2026Published 7 days after the contract date
Description
Direct award via the Community and Housing Investment Consortium (CHIC) Healthy Homes framework under workstream 1 (Digital Analytics and Reporting Platforms) of lot 3 - Digitisation.
About the supplier
Cotality UK Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 05613233).