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
- Police And Crime Commissioner For Durham · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Softcat PLC
- Value
- £112,000
- 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
- 012413-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date22 Dec 2025
- Published11 Feb 2026Published 51 days after the contract date
Description
Software and platform for law enforcement to legally extract, analyse, and manage data from digital devices for investigations, helping to solve crimes, conduct internal reviews, and gather evidence.
About the supplier
Softcat PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02174990).