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
- Aston University · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Akhter Computers Limited SME
- Value
- £1,676,300
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Office & computing equipment · Media storage and reader devices (CPV 30233000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 066210-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 Jun 2026
- Published14 Jul 2026Published 18 days after the contract date
Description
Supply and delivery of on-premises enterprise data centre storage infrastructure, including Performance, Standard, and Archive storage tiers, to support the University's data, application, and research storage requirements
About the supplier
Akhter Computers Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02253061).