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
- Chelmsford City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Dsi Billing Services Limited SME
- Value
- £320,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 104219-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Oct 2026
- Published3 Nov 2026Published 33 days after the contract date
Description
Call-off via the G-Cloud 14 framework for the provision of Council tax billing and printing software services over a 3 + 1 year contract. Maximum contract value dependent on extensions undertaken at £320k
About the supplier
Dsi Billing Services Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03823171).