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
- Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Ashton Court Group Ltd SME
- Value
- £90,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Software integration consultancy services (CPV 72227000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 104283-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date5 Oct 2026
- Published3 Nov 2026Published 29 days after the contract date
Description
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) has awarded a call-off contract under the Crown Commercial Service G-Cloud 14 Framework Agreement (RM1557.14) for the provision of specialist Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights - Journeys consultancy services. The contract has been awarded to Ashton Court Group Ltd under Lot 3 (Cloud Support) of the G-Cloud 14 Framework Agreement (RM1557.14).
About the supplier
Ashton Court Group Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02657259).