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
- Isle of Wight Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Stat Solutions Ltd SME
- Value
- £105,000
- Procedure
- Direct award
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date31 Jul 2026
- Published5 Aug 2026Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
The Isle of Wight Virtual School seeks to procure a digital solution to manage Personal Education Plans (PEPs) for the children we care for and monitor school attendance for all children open to a social worker effectively. The tool must support statutory, and non-statutory, requirements, improve data accuracy, and enhance collaboration between stakeholders. The system must: • Provide a secure, user-friendly platform for creating, updating, and storing PEPs. • Enable real-time attendance monitoring for children in care and children with a social worker ever6 • Facilitate reporting and compliance with Department for Education (DfE) statutory and non-statutory duties • Improve communication between schools, social care staff, and the Virtual School team.
About the supplier
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