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
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust · NHS Trust
- Supplier
- Softcat PLC
- Value
- £130,433.82
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Data security software package (CPV 48732000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 063976-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Apr 2026
- Published8 Jul 2026Published 98 days after the contract date
Description
ExtraHop Reveal(x) contract, to run from 2026 to 2031. First year to include full hardware update along with the subscription.
About the supplier
Softcat PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02174990).