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
- Cambridgeshire County Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Beam Up Limited SME
- Value
- £79,000
- Procedure
- Direct award
- Sector
- IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date18 Sep 2025
- Published18 Sep 2025Published the same day
Description
Adult Social Care carry out assessments in person, over teams or phone and make notes during the discussions which require writing up after the meeting and entering into the case management system. This process is time-consuming and vulnerable to errors due to uncaptured or forgotten details. Recent testing of AI products has shown that solutions are available that can record and transcribe conversations non-intrusively. Then extract the key points directly into a predefined template, eliminating the need for manual notetaking and entry. Procurement was conducted under Gcloud 14 framework
About the supplier
Beam Up Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 10637337).