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
- Leicester City Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Ascendant Solutions Ltd SME
- Value
- £46,800
- Procedure
- Direct award
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 May 2026
- Published4 Jun 2026Published 9 days after the contract date
Description
The provision of a Debt Segmentation tool to assess customer affordability and identify where there are possible vulnerabilities. The contract was awarded following a procurement conducted under the G-Cloud 14 framework.
About the supplier
Ascendant Solutions Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 10038449).