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
- UK Atomic Energy Authority · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Ember Networks Ltd
- Value
- £245,520
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Computer network services (CPV 72700000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 071451-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Nov 2025
- Published6 Nov 2025Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
Recently developed equipment and solution that will provide 4G and eventually 5G mobile network services on private land and internally into buildings with little or no mobile signal. Culham Campus has poor signal quality, and this solution aims to provide improved coverage externally and inside the main C11 security reception.
About the supplier
Ember Networks Ltd: every public contract they have won.