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
- NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- CDW Limited
- Value
- £76,627
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Networking, Internet and intranet software package (CPV 48200000)
- Region
- Wales
- Official notice
- 092988-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date16 Jul 2026
- Published1 Oct 2026Published 77 days after the contract date
Description
. These firewalls are critical to protecting Health Board systems and data, providing high-performance security, scalability, and resilience suitable for enterprise, data centre, and internet gateway environments.
About the supplier
CDW Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02465350).