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
- Homes England (the name adopted by the Homes and Communities Agency) · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Civica SME
- Value
- £50,000
- Procedure
- Direct award
- Sector
- IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Feb 2026
- Published16 Mar 2026Published 16 days after the contract date
Description
Homes England requires external support to design an initial Data Ethics Framework to strengthen data governance and promote responsible use of data and AI. The framework will start to set out how data is collected, stored, and used responsibly, with clear principles of transparency, accountability, fairness, and privacy. This will help to ensure compliance, establish ethical data use, and begin to introduce processes for assessing and mitigating risks to individuals and the organisation. Procured via CCS GCloud.
About the supplier
Civica: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01628868).