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# Credit Checking Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/credit-checking-services-ocds-h6vhtk-03b1cd). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Gambling Commission: "Credit Checking Services". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Gambling Commission](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/gambling-commission-gov-pb169)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Financial and insurance services
- **Delivery Location:** UKG
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £283,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03b1cd`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/credit-checking-services-ocds-h6vhtk-03b1cd#tl-md)

## Description
Following publication of our Request for Expressions of Interest and extensive market engagement we determined a contract award in favour of Creditsafe under regulation 32 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 on the basis that:
(b the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for the following reason (ii)competition is absent for technical reasons,
And that:
no reasonable alternative or substitute exists and the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 66000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKG

- **Description:** The Commissions primary concern when using the credit platform is to verify the information it has already been given by companies or individuals seeking a gambling licence. As such in vetting gambling licence applications we will look at ownership, ...

- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Credit Checking Services (active)
  - Award id: `007051-2023-22-037-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Creditsafe**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-COH:07941364`
  - Value: £283,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Credit Checking Services (active)
  - Signed Value: £283,000
  - Signed Date: 03/03/2023

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F007051-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-03-10T12:39:12.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T05:43:47.534Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03b1cd