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
- Leicester City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Vix Technology UK Ltd SME
- Value
- £259,772.79
- Procedure
- Direct award
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date31 Oct 2024
- Published27 Jun 2025Published 239 days after the contract date
Description
To supply, install, manage and maintain the city council's real-time information infrastructure and data. The real-time information infrastructure is in place on street at bus stops, at bus stations and other key sites such as the hospitals. The data management involves ensuring the necessary data feeds are in place and data is kept up to date in the RTI system (which is provided by the bus companies) to ensure that buses can track in real-time.
About the supplier
Vix Technology UK Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03039051).