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
- Coventry University · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- CDW Ltd
- Value
- £1,283,812.20
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 074013-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date29 Aug 2025
- Published14 Nov 2025Published 77 days after the contract date
Description
Renewal of Microsoft campus agreement for Desktops, Windows, Office and Server Infrastructure across the CU GROUP. This is required to have continuous licensing compliance across the group for Staff, Students, and Alumni. Failing to renew this contract would result in licensed Microsoft products having to be removed and access to Office 365 would be terminated. This is a direct award against the Health Trust Europe, which is a compliant framework against the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
About the supplier
CDW Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02465350).