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
- Supplier
- Softcat PLC
- Value
- £544,755.90
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date21 May 2026
- Published21 May 2026Published the same day
Description
Award notice for a procurement for the universities Managed Operations Security Centre. We are using the NWUPC Software Licence Resellers Agreement SLRA Lot 1 Microsoft & Associated Services. The University of Salford (UoS) community encompasses over 26,000 students, 2,800 staff and 170,000 alumni who come to study, teach, and research at Salford from all around the world. The University of Salford's thriving industry-focused research is innovative, rising to the challenges and opportunities of the fourth industrial revolution. UoS has a small information security team. The team use Microsoft Sentinel as their SIEM (Security Incident and Event Monitoring) solution. There is an incumbent managed Security Operations Centre (SOC) provider augmenting the internal team and providing 24/7/365 cover, initial triage of events, advice and guidance on significant events, and maintenance and tuning of the Sentinel platform as well as targeted threat intelligence.
About the supplier
Softcat PLC: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 02174990).