Lot 1
This Procurement was carried out via a Non-Competitive Action (NCA) for technical (integration) reasons.
Award criteria
Quality — 100
price — 0
Supply of virtual servers hosting the Nutanix Solution to augment an existing virtual server environment.
UKM82
This Procurement was carried out via a Non-Competitive Action (NCA) for technical (integration) reasons.
Award criteria
Quality — 100
price — 0
| Item | Category | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Computer servers | Not published |
Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 48. The category anchor is Computer servers (48822000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.
| Comparison set | Procedures | Reported bids per procedure | Named award suppliers | Price evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market: CPV division 48 | 3,436 | 1 median · 6.2 average (1,140 of 3,436 with a bid count) | 1.5 average (1,303 of 3,436 with named award suppliers) | Not published |
| Same buyer | 4 | 11 median · 11 average (2 of 4 with a bid count) | 1 average (2 of 4 with named award suppliers) | Not published |
| Delivery region: UKM82 | 25 | 1 median · 1.7 average (12 of 25 with a bid count) | 1 average (13 of 25 with named award suppliers) | Not published |
“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.
Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.
No planning milestones published.
No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.
No documents are published in the current source record.
Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.
| OCID | ocds-h6vhtk-05e644 |
|---|---|
| Latest release ID | 076006-2025 |
| Latest release timestamp | Fri Nov 21 2025 12:31:52 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Source | find-a-tender |
| Official notice URL | Not published |
| Tender status | complete |
| Procurement method | limited |
| Procurement method details | Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition |
| Main procurement category | goods |
| Above threshold | Not published |
| Legal basis | 32014L0024 |
| Tender period: start | Not published |
| Tender period: end | Not published |
| Expression of interest deadline | Not published |
| Enquiry deadline | Not published |
| Award period: start | Not published |
| Award period: end | Not published |
| Submission method details | Not published |
| Submission languages | Not published |
| Electronic catalogue policy | Not published |
| Total tender value | Not published |
| Tender lots in source | 1 |
| Tender items in source | 1 |
| Tender documents in source | 0 |
| Awards in latest release | 1 |
| Contracts in latest release | 1 |
| Parties in latest release | 3 |
| Date | Event | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Nov 2025 | award, contract | 076006-2025 |
Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.
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