Migration and Support of the UWS Website (Web Hosting Services)

ServicesAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competitionSME suitable

Awarded value£297,219published contract · exc. VAT

Awarded 22 May 2026no call for competition

Awarded to Waracle LTD2 awards

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Upgrade of the public website before End of Life to mitigate operational, security

and compliance risks.

including establishing a predictable, planned, agile development and maintenance pipeline.

Protect the public website as UWS’s primary recruitment, brand and statutory-compliance platform.

Provide a secure, stable, reliable, modern system aligned to the University’s cyber and operational risk appetite.

CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1Awarded

Delivery: UK · Paisley, Ayr, Lanarkshire, Dumfries and London

From the official record · publisher note attached

Procedure method: Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Legal basis: CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category: Services
Notice status: Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold: Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime: Standard
Commercial structure: Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type: Direct award (no call for competition)
GPA / WTO covered: Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement: Unspecified in notice
First published: 22 May 2026, 13:51 BST
Last source update: 4 Jun 2026, 10:18 BST
Authority reference: UWS-2025-164
FTS notice number: 2026/S 000-052625
Classification (CPV): IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery area: UK
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-06a149 Find a Tender

Why no open competition: The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Published justification: The UWS website is hosted externally due to technical limitations associated with the original design and development of the platform. A strategic decision was made to continue hosting and developing the website off-site under the current operating model, reflecting the architectural and technical constraints of the existing platform.

Publisher note: (SC Ref:833759)

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 2

Awarded value £297,2191 contract exc. VAT · 1 repeated publication of the same award counted once

Bids received 11 from SMEs

Contracts signed 2latest 22 May 2026

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
Waracle LTDSME	£297,219 †same award published again · counted once	—	Awarded
Waracle LTDSME	£297,219 †	—	Awarded

Contracts

Contract 047909-2026-UWS-2025-164-1 · Waracle LTDSME
Signed
22 May 2026
Value
£297,219
Status
active
Contract 052625-2026-UWS-2025-164-1 · Waracle LTDSME
Signed
22 May 2026
Value
£297,219
Status
active

Bid statistics published by the authority

Bids	SME	VCSE	Valid bid range
1bids · 1 electronic · 1 from abroad	1	—	—

Contracting authorityEducationBody governed by public lawEducation High Street, Paisley, Scotland, PA1 2BEContact email, phone

Dispute resolution & review bodies

1 commercial party on the notice

Waracle LTDAwarded supplier the engine room, 1 bash street, Dundee, UK, DD11NJContact phone

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.