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
- Sheffield Hallam University · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- MTI Technology
- Value
- £1,449,415.50
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Data storage services (CPV 72317000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 025396-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date21 May 2025
- Published22 May 2025Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
In recent years the University has moved increasingly to cloud-based services, migrating data center workloads to Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) public cloud services and a gradual transition of user data and workflow to Office 365 leading to a reduction in data stored on campus. As a result of this change the University's requires a robust platform that uses built-in protection services, providing the required level of data protection. The University is therefore procuring a solution to ensure robust data protection in cloud services at the same or similar level of protection as the University offers on-campus and to ensure that our on-campus backup systems are right-sized for the changed approach to services.
About the supplier
MTI Technology: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company SC112019).