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
- University of Portsmouth Higher Education Corporation · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Academia
- Value
- £58,996.23
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Miscellaneous software package and computer systems (CPV 48900000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 075042-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date15 Jul 2026
- Published7 Aug 2026Published 23 days after the contract date
Description
Mathematica is a software system with built in libraries for technical computing which is used across the faculty of Technology and Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation for symbolic mathematics, data analysis, 3D visualisation and machine learning. This is a critical tool for education and research across these areas, and this procurement is for a three year renewal of this license.
About the supplier
Academia: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04771037).