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
- NHS Education for Scotland · Body governed by public law
- Suppliers
- Barbour EHS, Content Online, Mind Tools (a trading name of Emerald Works Ltd), ProQuest, Taylor & Francis
- Value
- £483,305.16
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Recreation, culture & sport · Library services (CPV 92511000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 072458-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date10 Feb 2025
- Published10 Nov 2025Published 273 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of resources for the National Digital Library for Health and Social Care in Scotland
About the suppliers
Barbour EHS: every public contract they have won.
Content Online: every public contract they have won.
Mind Tools (a trading name of Emerald Works Ltd): every public contract they have won.
ProQuest: every public contract they have won.
Taylor & Francis: every public contract they have won.