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
- Heriot-Watt University · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Keysight Technologies UK Ltd
- Value
- £262,154.39
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) (CPV 38000000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 005465-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date17 Feb 2025
- Published17 Feb 2025Published the same day
Description
Following the publication of a voluntary ex ante transparency notice (VEAT) 789998 on the 6th February 2025. This is a contract award notice indicating that Heriot-Watt University is now in contract with Keysight Technologies UK Limited for the purchase of the following piece of Microwave and Radio frequency equipment: 10 MHz to 50 GHz PNA-X network analyzer; 4-port, configurable test set, second source, source attenuators, receiver attenuators, bias tees, combiner, mechanical switches; noise receiver to 50 GHz; Third RF source up to 13.5 GHz; Noise figure measurements with vector correction; Modulation distortion up to 50 GHz; Vector and scalar mixer/converter measurements; Internal 6 GHz Arbitrary Waveform Generation; Device measurement eXpert-DMX; Power Sensor; USB average thermocouple,10MHz-50GHz; Power sensor cable; 5-ft (1.5m); Connector 2.4MM, (DC Block) 10MHZ-50GHZ; ECal module 50 GHz 2-port 2.4 mm; 2.4 mm adapters; IQ Data Bandwidth up to 4 GHz; Advanced vector signal analysi…
About the supplier
Keysight Technologies UK Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03809903).