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 Strathclyde · Body governed by public law
- Value
- £360,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Library software package (CPV 48160000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 052187-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date14 Sep 2023
- Published3 Jun 2026Published 993 days after the contract date
Description
American Chemical Society is the sole agent for its Chemical Abstracts Service Scifinder and owns the intellectual property of its academic publications. The research database material and tools are unique to the Scifinder platform and are unavailable elsewhere. The proprietary academic content is heavily used by the Science Faculty within the University of Strathclyde and the unique and original research content on the site means that no other product or service can meet the specified requirement.
About the supplier
CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society: every public contract they have won.