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
- Softcat plc
- Value
- £213,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 085399-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Nov 2025
- Published22 Dec 2025Published 39 days after the contract date
Description
To include the infrastructure, hardware, system software, monitoring, management and maintenance of the entire solution - including back-ups, disaster recovery and software updates with an expected availability of 99.8%.
About the supplier
Softcat plc: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02174990).