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
- Edinburgh Napier University · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £1,480,218.82
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 051712-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date29 May 2026
- Published2 Jun 2026Published 4 days after the contract date
Description
This is a 5-year subscription renewal contract for our VMware provision plus professional services to deploy VCF version 9.1.
About the supplier
VMware International Unlimited Company: every public contract they have won.