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
- MTI Technology
- Value
- £101,638.16
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · Data storage services (CPV 72317000)
- Region
- South East
- Official notice
- 093962-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Oct 2026
- Published5 Oct 2026Published 4 days after the contract date
Description
The University currently uses Isilon storage infrastructure to support the CCIXR facility. This contract provides the capacity required to maintain operational and technical requirements with the large volume of data generated and used by the facility.
About the supplier
MTI Technology: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company SC112019).