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
- The Police and Crime Commissioner for Leicestershire · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Specialist Computer Centre
- Value
- £480,503.99
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Office & computing equipment · Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages (CPV 30000000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 082191-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date23 Nov 2025
- Published11 Dec 2025Published 18 days after the contract date
Description
Leicestershire Police are looking to purchase a new highly resilient, high performance, virtual server hosting platform with support and maintenance included for the life of the contract.
About the supplier
Specialist Computer Centre: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01428210).