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
- Southend-on-sea Borough Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Prosperon Networks Ltd SME
- Value
- £52,819.72
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Networking software package (CPV 48210000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date24 Mar 2026
- Published25 Jun 2026Published 93 days after the contract date
Description
Southend-on-Sea City Council wishes to continue licence software for server and storage monitoring system (currently SolarWinds). The software needed fulfils the below roles: • Network management, • Server management, • Storage Monitoring • Virtualisation management • IP Address management • Database Performance Analyzer for virtualized environments. Technical support for all software, including training. Annual Remote Health check and recommendations report.
About the supplier
Prosperon Networks Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 05884643).