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 Portsmouth Higher Education Corporation · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Reply Ltd
- Value
- £719,100
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Software implementation services (CPV 72263000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 085570-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date11 Aug 2026
- Published9 Sep 2026Published 29 days after the contract date
Description
Direct award under G Cloud 14
About the supplier
Reply Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03847202).