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
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust · NHS Trust
- Supplier
- Insight Direct (UK) Ltd
- Value
- £1,044,420
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Data security software package (CPV 48732000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 004331-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date5 Dec 2025
- Published19 Jan 2026Published 45 days after the contract date
Description
Edge Cyber Firewall and Infrastructure Modernisation Programme. The key features are: •Hardware Firewall Lifecycle and Upgrade & Virtualised Platform Lifecycle •OneEPR and EDRMS Firewall •Modernisation & Standardisation •Extending Remote Radiology Service
About the supplier
Insight Direct (UK) Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02579852).