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 Staffordshire · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Phoenix Software Ltd
- Value
- £1,064,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- 084500-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 Aug 2026
- Published7 Sep 2026Published 26 days after the contract date
Description
The University of Staffordshire has awarded a contract for the provision of a Microsoft EES Campus Agreement for a period of 3 years via the Software Licence Resellers Agreement and Consultancy Services Framework operated by SUPC
About the supplier
Phoenix Software Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02548628).