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 Bedfordshire · University
- Supplier
- Talis Education Ltd SME
- Value
- £77,942.70
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Exhibition, fair and congress organisation services (CPV 79950000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 032543-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date24 Apr 2025
- Published16 Jun 2025Published 53 days after the contract date
Description
Talis Aspire is an online reading list management system used in higher education to create, manage, and publish course reading lists
About the supplier
Talis Education Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07196638).