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
- Commission for Tertiary Education and Research (Medr) · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- SAS Software Ltd
- Value
- £138,605
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 087613-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date4 Jun 2026
- Published16 Sep 2026Published 104 days after the contract date
Description
Medr utilised the Government Commercial Agency G-Cloud 14 agreement RM1557.14, Lot 2: Cloud software to appoint a supplier to secure licences for SAS Analytics Pro plus access engines.
About the supplier
SAS Software Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01316437).