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
- NS&I · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Zero Plus Ltd SME
- Value
- £23,900
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Sector
- IT services · System quality assurance assessment and review services (CPV 72225000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date29 Jan 2025
- Published27 Feb 2025Published 29 days after the contract date
Description
NS&I has an outsourced customer servicing model which provides IT and infrastructure services. These services are provided to NS&I by Atos and includes patch management and vulnerability management. For NS&I systems to be protected from risks associated with patching, it is important that effective processes are in place to test patches, deploy patches into the operating environment and verify that each patch is deployed successfully. NS&I and Atos have agreed a business process outsourcing agreement which provides sufficient consideration to the key requirements of an effective patching process. The objective of this review is to provide assurance to NS&I management that Atos has fully completed the remedial patching required across the NS&I IT estate.
About the supplier
Zero Plus Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 13073843).