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
- Bristol City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- This is Focus Ltd SME
- Value
- £46,000
- Procedure
- Direct award
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date31 Jul 2025
- Published15 Sep 2025Published 46 days after the contract date
Description
This contract would allow us to maintain an on-going subscription for our South West Regional Care leaver app (https://www.gcsw.co.uk/) on behalf of 11 local authorities (across the South West). Bristol leads this project for the region. This spend is to continue the care leave app - which is used to publish our statutory local and regional offers to care leavers. We also use this to advertise partner support, ETE opportunities and social events. This spend is part of the Sector Led Improvement (SLI) project.
About the supplier
This is Focus Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07522150).