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
- The Insolvency Service · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Software programming and consultancy services (CPV 72200000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 102329-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Oct 2026
- Published28 Oct 2026Published the same day
Description
The contract is for the specialist implementation services required to implement and operationalise the recently awarded Quantexa Data Analytics Tool, including configuration, data ingestion, entity resolution, risk-scoring, migration to the Agency's Azure environment, user enablement, knowledge transfer and operational support. The awarded supplier is PwC, with a committed contract value of £441,700 and an optional £1m drawdown provision, subject to future business need, approvals and formal contract variation. The proposed contract term is 28 October 2026 to 27 October 2027, with an option to extend for a further 12 months. It is being awarded under the Government Commercial Agency G-Cloud 14 Framework Agreement (RM1557.14), Lot 3: Cloud Support, via a direct award.
About the supplier
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company OC303525).