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 Sunderland · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Jisc Services Limited
- Value
- £609,162
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 081202-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 Aug 2026
- Published26 Aug 2026Published the same day
Description
Procurement of Adobe Licensing for 3 years through the JISC CHEST on the Southern Universities Procurement Consortia (SUPC) Software Licence Resellers Agreement & Consultancy Services (SLRA) Lot 2a Adobe ETLA Agreements.
About the supplier
Jisc Services Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02881024).