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
- Genomics England Limited · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Softcat PLC
- Value
- £47,358.50
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Software programming and consultancy services (CPV 72200000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 074062-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date6 Oct 2025
- Published14 Nov 2025Published 39 days after the contract date
Description
Provision of Semarchy expert consultancy to support Genomics England's Research division
About the supplier
Softcat PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02174990).