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
- Cardiff University · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- CDW Limited
- Value
- £3,369,488.63
- 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
- Wales
- Official notice
- 069798-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date30 Oct 2025
- Published30 Oct 2025Published the same day
Description
Palo Alto SOC
About the supplier
CDW Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02465350).