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
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Virtual Data Centre Services Ltd (virtualDCS) SME
- Value
- £32,250
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Sector
- Software & information systems · IT software package (CPV 48517000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date1 Jul 2025
- Published29 Jan 2026Published 212 days after the contract date
Description
NICE requires a Cloud-based Disaster Recovery solution that offers comprehensive protection: ensuring that in the event of an incident business data can be restored quickly and the organisation can be up and running within minutes. This is a direct award as continuity of the current supply is required.
About the supplier
Virtual Data Centre Services Ltd (virtualDCS): every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 10501907).