Who Won It

Contract award · 7 May 2026

Provision of software development skills to support Open SDG

Office for National Statistics awarded “Provision of software development skills to support Open SDG” to Center for Open Data Enterprise for £75,000.

No competitionIT servicesWales

BuyerOffice for National Statistics
Value £75,000
WinnerCenter for Open Data Enterprise

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.

What “without competition” means

Buyer
Office for National Statistics · Non departmental government body
Supplier
Center for Open Data Enterprise
Value
£75,000
Procedure
Single tender action (below threshold)
Sector
IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
Region
Wales
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Timeline
  1. Contract date7 May 2026
  2. Published22 Sep 2026Published 138 days after the contract date

Description

Professional services acquired to provide software development skills in order to develop, maintain and support Open SDG, an open-source tool for reporting Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) data of which over 55 implementations worldwide exist.

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