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
- Government Commercial Agency · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Basware Holdings Limited
- Value
- £262,947.30
- Procedure
- Other - Direct award via RM1557.14
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Operating systems (CPV 48620000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 May 2026
- Published15 Jun 2026Published 34 days after the contract date
Description
To provide service continuity to the Government eMarketplace catalogue solution which currently hosts content from 8 GCA Commercial Agreements and is used as the route to market for direct awards. 3 of these agreements, and 1 new one, are scheduled to be
About the supplier
Basware Holdings Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 05732676).