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
- Supplier
- Uipath
- Value
- £44,800
- Procedure
- Single tender action (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 date20 Dec 2024
- Published6 Jan 2025Published 17 days after the contract date
Description
Uipath licences are needed to ensure that Ofsted has continued access to an enterprise automatic platform that provides robotic process automation (RPA) tools. RPA helps digital workers automate repetitive, manual, and error-prone tasks. It also utilises Artificial Intelligence (AI) and provides analytics for multiple stakeholders across Ofsted.
About the supplier
Uipath: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 09932290).