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
- Suppliers
- RELX (UK) Limited (T/A LexisNexis), Thomson Reuters Professional UK Ltd, vLex Justis Limited SME
- Value
- £16,750,000
- Procedure
- Negotiated procedure without prior publication (above threshold)
- Sector
- Business services · Legal services (CPV 79100000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Mar 2024
- Published25 Feb 2025Published 361 days after the contract date
Description
An online legal subscription service, which provides large and sophisticated databases of legal information (e.g. case law) for the UK and abroad.
About the suppliers
RELX (UK) Limited (T/A LexisNexis): every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02746621).
Thomson Reuters Professional UK Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01679046).
vLex Justis Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company SC095752).