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
- Ebsco Information Services
- Value
- £83,590
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Platform interconnectivity software development services (CPV 72212211)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 044141-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date15 Jul 2025
- Published30 Jul 2025Published 15 days after the contract date
Description
Acquisition of this resource will support compliance with OFS B3 conditions, TEF, REF submissions, NSS and PTES student satisfaction surveys and University KPI's.
About the supplier
Ebsco Information Services: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company BR011966).