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
- Sheffield Hallam University · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- St-Four Limited SME
- Value
- £71,030.40
- 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
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- 065355-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date31 Jul 2025
- Published14 Oct 2025Published 75 days after the contract date
Description
The Open Text Identity Manager will manage the lifecycle of University IT accounts providing some authentication services to some applications and the Open Text File Dynamics provision will handle file stores for user's files and shared collaborative storage spaces.
About the supplier
St-Four Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 05575554).