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
- The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Force Information System Limid
- Value
- £75,554.48
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Feb 2026
- Published17 Feb 2026Published 4 days after the contract date
Description
The duration of the contract is 3 years with no option to extend. This was a Direct Award based on the niche service and bespoke requirement for the City of London Police. The same supplier was critical as a gap in service/new supplier mobilisation would've had a detrimental impact. The contract is for, but not limited to: For managing Police Professional Standards The Licensee shall use reasonable endeavours to ensure that it shall: a) provide a suitable person to act under telephone guidance to install software alterations and make any necessary changes to existing data; b) provide the System to a specification agreed by FIS of sufficient specification and reliability to host successfully both the Licensed Software and any ancillary software such as the Microsoft Office products Word and Excel; c) provide sufficient operating System support to allow Users access to the System and to its ancillary software (and the support must be sufficient to ensure that the System and its anc…
About the supplier
Force Information System Limid: every public contract they have won.