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
- Panopto EMEA Limited
- Value
- £75,000
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Library software package (CPV 48160000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date23 Jun 2026
- Published23 Jun 2026Published the same day
Description
The University were looking to appoint a competent supplier to provide lecture capture software, across the whole of the University. The chosen software meets the following technical/functional specification: Cloud-based video management platform that provides a customisable video library with departmental home pages, a suit of analytics for gauging viewing behaviour, content creation tools for all faculty, student, and staff, an easy-to-use video editor that runs in any web browser, content governance including availability windows and approval workflows, an inside-video search engine that indexes every word spoken and shown on-screen in every recording, and a video player that runs in any web browser and on students' mobile devices. Every video uploaded to the library is automatically transcoded for adaptive bitrate streaming, ensuring fast start-up and minimal buffering, regardless of connection speed. Optimised viewing during playback for the viewer's network connection by continu…
About the supplier
Panopto EMEA Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07485773).