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
- Supplier
- Vix Technology SME
- Value
- Not published
- 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
- 063711-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Mar 2024
- Published9 Oct 2025Published 575 days after the contract date
Description
The current ScotRail validator estate installed in 2014, consists of over 700 devices working across the network of 325 stations. The validators are managed and updated by Vix Cast software which is used to monitor and update the validators across the network. Vix Technology UK Limited are the only supplier that can maintain their own equipment and as such, the only supplier with the technical expertise and authorisation to do so
About the supplier
Vix Technology: every public contract they have won.