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
- University Of Edinburgh · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Analytik Limited SME
- Value
- £358,074
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Laboratory & precision equipment · Geological and geophysical instruments (CPV 38200000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 014529-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Feb 2025
- Published11 Apr 2025Published 42 days after the contract date
Description
The University has a requirement for a light airborne mounted hyper-spectral scanning system which can image physical and biological material non-destructively with resolutions of 400-1000nm, take simultaneous LIDAR scans, while being light and portable (mountable on a backpack), compatible with Headwall airborne operations and data acquisition software, and, can be piloted by a single individual without requirement for certification under CAA regulations. On the basis of ensuring compatibility with pre-existing componentry and software in the University estate we deem that competition is absent as acquisition of other products would have different technical characteristics and result in incompatibility and disproportionate technical difficulty in operation. We therefore direct award as follows.
About the supplier
Analytik Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04688830).