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
- Cardiff University · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- CDW Ltd
- Value
- £683,371.63
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Office & computing equipment · Data-processing machines (hardware) (CPV 30210000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 050107-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date27 May 2026
- Published28 May 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
University IT need to replace the Nutanix virtual machine infrastructure that hosts the University’s critical IT on-premise applications
About the supplier
CDW Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02465350).