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 East Anglia · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Softcat PLC
- Value
- £51,100
- 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
- East of England
- Official notice
- 063858-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date5 Jun 2026
- Published7 Jul 2026Published 32 days after the contract date
Description
To define new environment, potentially Intune, build, test and supply environment ready to use. This will be a one-off piece of work, to create environment for apple and set the organisation up to be able to add future devices in house as required.
About the supplier
Softcat PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02174990).