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
- Insight Direct (UK) Ltd
- Value
- £138,790
- 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
- 008826-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 Dec 2025
- Published2 Feb 2026Published 52 days after the contract date
Description
12 months licencing for COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer). Clinical scientists use COSMIC information for assessing oncogenicity of somatic variants.
About the supplier
Insight Direct (UK) Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02579852).