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 the West of Scotland · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- R D B Concepts Ltd SME
- Value
- £621,259.08
- 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
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 067087-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date15 Jul 2026
- Published16 Jul 2026Published 1 day after the contract date
Description
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition Justification for selected award procedure: The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the Directive Explanation: This contract is for the 1-year renewal of a managed service of its Student Information System (SIS) that is an existing system at the University, currently being upgraded, with a project team having commenced this work. The SIS is managed externally due to technical limitations associated with the design and development of the platform in the UWS environment. It is UWS’ belief that at the current time that only one supplier can meet the requirements as any change in the managed service and hosting environment is highly likely to (i) cause a significant amount of disruption to all involved in and affected by the SIS upgrade; (ii) incur significant additional cost for UWS, any (iii) negatively stretch timelines for project delivery. As such, UWS is publishing this voluntary ex-ante notice…
About the supplier
R D B Concepts Ltd: every public contract they have won.