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
- Genomics England Limited · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Bytes Software Services Ltd
- Value
- £249,815.50
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 008760-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Jan 2026
- Published2 Feb 2026Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
12 months licencing for CrowdStrike, a tool used for endpoint detection and response and next-gen anti-virus
About the supplier
Bytes Software Services Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01616977).