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 the West of Scotland · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Waracle Ltd SME
- Value
- £297,219
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 052625-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date22 May 2026
- Published4 Jun 2026Published 13 days after the contract date
Description
Upgrade of the public website before End of Life to mitigate operational, security and compliance risks. including establishing a predictable, planned, agile development and maintenance pipeline. Protect the public website as UWS’s primary recruitment, brand and statutory-compliance platform. Provide a secure, stable, reliable, modern system aligned to the University’s cyber and operational risk appetite.
About the supplier
Waracle Ltd: every public contract they have won.