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 Strathclyde · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Thomson Reuters Limited
- Value
- £53,022
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Subscription services (CPV 79980000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 026212-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date2 Feb 2026
- Published23 Mar 2026Published 49 days after the contract date
Description
The University has awarded a contract for the provision of Westlaw Academic Databases eJournals and eBooks (UOS-41130-S-2026) This is an intellectual property. Thomson Reuters owns the intellectual property of it's academic platforms and academic publications and as such Westlaw databases and content therein is unavailable elsewhere. This proprietary academic content is heavily used by the Humanities & Social Sciences (HASS) Faculty especially the law department. The unique and original research content on the site means that no other product or services can meet the specified requirement.
About the supplier
Thomson Reuters Limited: every public contract they have won.