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
- £278,270.66
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- 082799-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date15 Dec 2025
- Published15 Dec 2025Published the same day
Description
The Supplier will provide a 10-month subscription for a Starfish Unstructured Data Catalog & Duplicate File Detection licence with 28PB capability and a 5-month subscription for a Starfish Unstructured Data Catalog & Duplicate File Detection licence with 22PB capability, in both cases with an upgrade from Standard Support to SysAdmin Support.
About the supplier
Softcat PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02174990).