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
- CB Information Services SME
- Value
- £45,394.28
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date19 Feb 2025
- Published10 Mar 2025Published 19 days after the contract date
Description
Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) is invited quotations for the provision of an "out-of-the-box" SaaS platform that provides business intelligence on companies, deals, financials and markets to support business development, strategic decision-making and impact analysis. The platform will be used to identify and analyse both individual companies and groups of similar companies (determined based on search requirements). The platform will help MDC to identify companies and provide global coverage focusing on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) headquartered in North America and Europe.
About the supplier
CB Information Services: every public contract they have won.