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
- Billigence Europe Ltd
- Value
- £372,443.92
- 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
- 074663-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date20 Jul 2026
- Published6 Aug 2026Published 17 days after the contract date
Description
This is a three plus one year renewal for Tableau which is the data visualisation platform for the University Group's business intelligence service. The renewal for 1,000x viewer licenses to enable end users to access interactive dashboards on Tableau Cloud and 35x creator licenses which are used for dashboard design and data analysis within the Strategic Planning and Insight Office (SPIO). This supplier was selected using the G-cloud 14 Framework search, this was the only supplier returned in the search. This is a compliant PCR2015 framework. After intensive negotiation, significant discounts for both the viewer (37%) and creator (18%) elements were provided making the provided contract highly competitive and representing value for money.
About the supplier
Billigence Europe Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07939811).