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
- Medicines Discovery Catapult Limited · Health - Drug Discovery
- Supplier
- C21 Creative Communications SME
- Value
- £71,205.90
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Sector
- Business services · Marketing services (CPV 79342000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date11 Dec 2024
- Published10 Mar 2025Published 89 days after the contract date
Description
MDC is in the market for a supplier to become our digital website agency partner to support our activities in reshaping the UK's medicines discovery industry. At Medicines Discovery Catapult, we manage our corporate website and social channels as well as five other websites and social channels for other brands we oversee. We require a digital agency to support with hosting, support and maintenance of our digital landscape. The purpose of being MDC's sole digital website agency is to: Support with hosting and ongoing website maintenance to all websites through dedicated account management style processes, ensuring the site is user-friendly and accessible. Provide ad-hoc website improvements/development (front and back-end) on a project basis, which will be briefed, resourced, and cost separately from the support, hosting, and maintenance agency retainer. Provide ad-hoc SEO improvements and guidance, which will be costed separately from the support, hosting, and maintenance agency retai…
About the supplier
C21 Creative Communications: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 05684315).