Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-07-07
Buyer: Welsh Government
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30211300 | 48000000 | 48190000 | 48931000 | 72000000
Estimated value: 5062500 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-09-07
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Hwb, the digital learning platform for Wales, provides its users with a single point of access to a range of centrally-funded, bilingual, digital tools and resources. It is the Welsh Government’s strategic digital channel to support the delivery of the curriculum in Wales by providing education stakeholders with a centralised platform enabling easy access to relevant digital content and tools.
The Welsh Government is committed to delivering a national approach to digital services, enabling maintained schools in Wales to consistently exploit the transformational benefits which digital and technology can have on education.
Hwb, the digital learning platform for Wales, provides its users with a single point of access to a range of centrally-funded, bilingual, digital tools and resources. It is the Welsh Government’s strategic digital channel to support the delivery of the curriculum in Wales by providing education stakeholders with a centralised platform enabling easy access to relevant digital content and tools.
Hwb enables its users to access online tools and resources anywhere, at any time and from a range of web-enabled devices. It also provides tools to help education practitioners create and share their own resources and assignments.
To put some context around the scale of the platform there are in the region of 550 000 potential users of the platform and 98 % of schools in Wales are regularly classed as ‘actively engaged’. The average logins per month during term time is over 1 million users and page views are in the region of 3.5 million per month.
In addition to the Hwb platform, this procurement exercise includes the Welsh Government’s internal learning and development platform – Learning Lab, and the Academi Wales web platform which are both currently built on the same technology stack as Hwb.
Please note – the estimated total value includes an optional annual 50 % development cost. The contract value for the core requirements of the tender is GBP 3 375 000. If further developments are required to the platform over the course of the contract, they will be agreed between the supplier and the Welsh Government and paid for out of the additional 50 % allocation.
The contract to be awarded will be for a 3-year term with a maximum total contract extension of 2 years.
The contractor undertakes to maintain its security practices and the Security Policy based on best industry practice guidelines that comply with, and shall maintain certification in accordance with, the following:
This procurement will be an open procedure and is being led by the Welsh Government to appoint a single supplier.
Welsh Government intend to use eTenderWales to administer the procurement. All communications will be sent via eTenderWales.
Note: the authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales;
Note: the authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=102348
Under the terms of this contract the successful supplier(s) will be required to deliver community benefits in support of the authority’s economic and social objectives. Accordingly, contract performance conditions may relate in particular to social and environmental considerations. The community benefits included in this contract are:
Community benefits will be a non-core requirement and will not form part of the evaluation criteria. However, submission of a non-core community benefits proposal will be a condition of a compliant bid and is part of the bidders technical submission. Non-core community benefits proposals should be planned on a cost-neutral basis.

Eligibility requirements: The contractor undertakes to maintain its security practices and the Security Policy based on best industry practice guidelines that comply with, and shall maintain certification in accordance with, the following: 4.1.1 the ISO/IEC 27001 (Information Security Requirements Specification); and 4.1.2 the Cyber Essentials Certification.

Award value: 5062500