Oracle Database Software Support & Maintenance

This contract has been awarded to Oracle Corporation UK Ltd without seeking offers through formal procurement procedures. Competition is absent for technical reasons. Under clause 6(1) (b) (ii) of the legislation, a contracting authority may award a contract without competition (only where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists, and the absence of competition is not the result of artificial narrowing down of parameters of the procurement). Oracle make and support the licenses and are the only supplier who c...