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
- De Montfort University · Higher Education
- Supplier
- Logicalis UK Limited
- Value
- £746,255.04
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 006926-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 Jan 2026
- Published27 Jan 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
Provision of VMWare assorted products/licencing for our data centre infrastructure.
About the supplier
Logicalis UK Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03732397).