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
- Police And Crime Commissioner For Durham · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Softcat PLC
- Value
- £56,492.88
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Network servers (CPV 48821000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 035657-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date2 Apr 2026
- Published20 Apr 2026Published 18 days after the contract date
Description
The HPE Apollo 4510 is a high-density, 4U rackmount storage server designed specifically for Big Data workloads, such as object storage, data analytics, and deep archiving. Scality provides technical support for its storage products, including Scality RING.
About the supplier
Softcat PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02174990).