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 · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Academia Ltd
- Value
- £1,419,463.83
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Sales or marketing software package (CPV 48481000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 050977-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date27 Mar 2026
- Published29 May 2026Published 63 days after the contract date
Description
Salesforce is the University's strategic core CRM and Marketing Cloud system which is a strategic platform for the University. The University has a requirement to renew our Salesforce CRM and Marketing Cloud contract for another three years. Covering CRM (Customer Community, Partner Community, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud) & Marketing Cloud (Audiences, Contacts Corporate edition, Business Units, Professional Contacts, SMS Messages and SSL Certificates)
About the supplier
Academia Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04771037).