Awarded contract

Website Search Engine Functionality

Details

Buyer: University of Cumbria
Supplier(s): Squiz UK Ltd
Value: £54,828
Duration: 2 years
Topic: Web search engine providers
Published: 16 December 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The University of Cumbria require continuation of a robust, reliable and fast search engine to serve users of our website with special consideration to prospective students and offer holders, to help them navigate the website and find the information they need quickly and efficiently. ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published16 December 2025
Current notice
Completed: Award date16 December 2025
Next: Contract expiry date5 November 2027in 12 months

About the buyer

University of Cumbria is a higher education institution, and buys as an education organisation with its own Procurement Policy and Financial Regulations. Large-value contracts below the formal public procurement thresholds still go to competitive tender under that policy. The University works with the North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium and regional higher education purchasing consortia. Approved suppliers are those that have won a University or consortium tender exercise.

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Cumbria's contract awards have been in IT services, construction work and software and information systems.

Decision makers

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