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 Portsmouth Higher Education Corporation · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Academia Limited
- Value
- £154,856.66
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 040530-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date27 Feb 2026
- Published1 May 2026Published 63 days after the contract date
Description
The procurement is for license renewal to our apps anywhere software, to include cloudpaging and parallels under the same contract.
About the supplier
Academia Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04771037).