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
- NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Softcat Plc
- Value
- £236,842.11
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 060640-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 May 2026
- Published29 Jun 2026Published 59 days after the contract date
Description
A direct award via the NHS SBS Digital 2 Framework for the NHS Wales IFRS 16 Accounting System contract. Additional information: Compliant direct award process followed following the Framework's listed 'objective conditions' for direct award.
About the supplier
Softcat Plc: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02174990).