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
- Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Dell Corporation Limited
- Value
- £360,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 034947-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date2 Apr 2026
- Published17 Apr 2026Published 15 days after the contract date
Description
Infrastructure project aimed at replacing end-of-support (EoS) core and data centre network hardware
About the supplier
Dell Corporation Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02081369).