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
- Genomics England Limited · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Softcat PLC
- Value
- £29,562.77
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 053340-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date31 Jul 2025
- Published2 Sep 2025Published 33 days after the contract date
Description
Provision and support of HashiCorp Vault, for storing encryption keys etc., and associated support
About the supplier
Softcat PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02174990).