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
- University of Greenwich · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Worktribe Ltd SME
- Value
- £3,000,000
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Project management software package (CPV 48331000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 005446-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date14 Feb 2025
- Published17 Feb 2025Published 3 days after the contract date
Description
The University of Greenwich is planning to adopt the Worktribe research management system to provide a sector leading, single vendor led, fully integrated with all applicable University of Greenwich systems, end-to-end management platform in a modular delivery incorporating Opportunities, Pre-Award, Post-Award, Ethics, Contracts, Due Diligence, Outputs, Impacts, Profiles and REF. As we do not believe that any other company is able to provide this Research Management, we plan to issue a contract award notice after 30 days to Worktribe Limited. Additional information: If any supplier feels that they can provide the services identified above they should provide details of their solution to Mark Roust using the email address set out in the notice within 30 days of this notice. They should also provide details of where their solution is deployed and what software that it integrates with.
About the supplier
Worktribe Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04576074).