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
- London Metropolitan University · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Phoenix Software Limited
- Value
- £1,000,000
- 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
- 083995-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Nov 2025
- Published17 Dec 2025Published 46 days after the contract date
Description
All usage of Azure servers in place of physical servers. This is to receive preferential service charges for all virtual services based on Azure platform. This would include Azure Virtual Desktops / EDP / EDI / CRM and various storage areas for courses / projects and backups & archives.
About the supplier
Phoenix Software Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02548628).