Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-11-15
Buyer: Jisc
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 72212517 | 73200000
Estimated value: 6000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Jisc wishes to establish a multi-supplier, multi-lot framework agreement to supply research and development consultancy to support Jisc’s work in the higher and further education and skills sectors. The lots include:
In Lot 1, Jisc wishes to establish a framework agreement with bidders to deliver technical services that range from mobile applications to large web services and include scalable middleware. Specific skills will be required for this Lot:
Further extensions of 12 months and 12 months may be taken by Jisc (so, potentially a combined contract length of 2 + 1 + 1 years).
In Lot 2, Jisc wishes to establish a framework agreement with bidders to deliver professional services for user-centred design to ensure our products and services meet our members’ and customers’ needs in efficient, engaging and usable ways.
We welcome applications from agencies that cover the full range of design skills (including front-end web development) and individuals specialising in key skills.
Further extensions of 12 months and 12 months may be taken by Jisc (so, potentially a combined contract length of 2 + 1 + 1 years).
In Lot 3, Jisc wishes to establish a framework agreement with bidders to deliver services and support in relation to immersive technologies such as augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR), also sometimes referred to as mixed or extended reality (MR or XR).
Further extensions of 12 months and 12 months may be taken by Jisc (so, potentially a combined contract length of 2+1+1 years).
Jisc wishes to establish a framework agreement with bidders to commission consultancy services support in the development and review of new forms of scholarly communication (including teaching and learning), information management and related library technical solutions.
Business, licensing and economic/financial modelling; related requirements of the research and education sectors, new forms of scholarly communication and associated metrics and analytics; as well as the related cultural and organisational issues.
Manipulating large datasets to derive trend data, scenarios and new models, with the ability to quickly change those if required to incorporate new data sets or reflect changes to policy, rules, etc. or in response to market intelligence or quantitative and qualitative data. The technical aspects of information management in terms of associated architectures, frameworks, technical standards (including schemas, vocabularies and protocols) and approaches used to support creation, curation, preservation, access, reuse and analysis of digital assets; or technical solutions to better manage and access analogue resources.
Further extensions of 12 months and 12 months may be taken by Jisc (so, potentially a combined contract length of 2 + 1 + 1 years).
In Lot 5, Jisc wishes to establish a framework agreement with bidders who are experts with a broad knowledge of analytics in both the HE and FE sectors, as well as expertise in 1 or more of the areas listed below.
The experts should be familiar with the technical aspects of learning analytics including data extraction, transform and load, data warehousing, data analysis and visualisation.
Experts should be familiar with the commercial products that offer these functions and with the systems that data will need to be extracted from.


Winner: Jeremy benn Associates Ltd
Award value: 6000000
Number of bids: 13