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
- Preservica Ltd SME
- Value
- £42,600
- Procedure
- Other - Direct Award from a Framework
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Miscellaneous software package and computer systems (CPV 48900000)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date12 Dec 2024
- Published26 Feb 2026Published 441 days after the contract date
Description
Walsall Council requires digital preservation software to ensure the long-term accessibility and integrity of digital content and to ensure that valuable digital content is preserved for future use. The Digital Archive Management solution requires both a platform for public access and the back office processes that will give us the ability to manage the collection (Uploading different media and file formats, cataloguing, recording the metadata etc).
About the supplier
Preservica Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07998621).