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
- Ordnance Survey · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
- Supplier
- Softcat PLC
- Value
- £924,801
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Security software package (CPV 48730000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 061139-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date16 Sep 2025
- Published1 Oct 2025Published 15 days after the contract date
Description
Ordnance Survey Ltd (OS) is Great Britain’s mapping agency and is responsible for the surveying, production, maintenance and marketing of a wide range of geographic information, relied on by government, business and individuals. Further information can be found on our website http://www.os.uk. OS is a private limited company (company registration number 09121572), and the entire share capital is owned by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.OS has a large in-house technology function that seeks to develop and maintain their systems in a secure manner. As such Application Security Testing is essential.OS are seeking to renew their licensing for its Application Security Testing Tools under this procurement.
About the supplier
Softcat PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02174990).