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
- NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Phoenix Software Ltd
- Value
- £36,619.56
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 032058-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date17 Mar 2026
- Published8 Apr 2026Published 22 days after the contract date
Description
Hywel Dda University Health Board (HDUHB) have awarded a contract for the renewal of their Snyk Open Source Solution. The requirement supports HDUHB’s Digital Services Development Team with a solution to analyse code as it is written to identify insecure code writing and facilitate the correction of security flaws within their software. The software solution encourages real-time adjustments to code writing to limit the Health Board’s security vulnerabilities and licence issues allowing the Development Team to securely write and develop code. Additionally, the real-time assessment of code in the writing phase means the need to continuously analyse the software following release through static penetration tests is removed, which will reduce the development lifecycle.
About the supplier
Phoenix Software Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02548628).