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
- West Northamptonshire Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Trustmarque Solutions Ltd
- Value
- £300,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 097374-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date14 Oct 2026
- Published15 Oct 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
The contract covers the provision of Microsoft Azure consumption services, Microsoft Fabric capacity and associated Microsoft Power Platform licences and services. These services support the Authority's cloud infrastructure, data warehousing, analytics, reporting, application development and business process automation requirements
About the supplier
Trustmarque Solutions Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02183240).