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
- Poplar Housing and Regeneration Community Association Limited · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Softcat PLC
- Value
- £87,991.26
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Office & computing equipment · Computer equipment and supplies (CPV 30200000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 064126-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
-
- Contract date19 Jun 2026
- Published8 Jul 2026Published 19 days after the contract date
Description
Poplar HARCA require a redundant FibreChannel-Capable Storage Array with at least 25TB of usable storage to replace an old unit which is coming to it's end of life.
About the supplier
Softcat PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02174990).