Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-11-24
Buyer: University of Portsmouth
Country: UK
Region: Portsmouth
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 72413000: Website design services | 72415000: Website hosting services | 72420000 | 73000000
Submission deadline: 2016-12-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: You are invited to apply for this tender. Please see the full description in the information further down the advert. Alternatively, please go to the University's In-Tend web portal for further details. https://in-tendhost.co.uk/port/
Please also see a link to our vision document that may provide more information about the University.
To Express an Interest in this project please register on the University of Portsmouth In-Tend web-page and express an interest in this project. Please find the web-link for our web-page below:
Please note, once you have expressed an interest, you will automatically receive the PQQ stage document to be completed.
You are invited to express an interest in a tender process for the re-design and re-development of the University of Portsmouth website (www.port.ac.uk). Suppliers must be able to deliver all three phases as part of one contract. The phases are as follows:
The discovery phase will begin with detailed research into the core audiences that use the current website and any new audiences that should be targeted. This will also include a review of existing technologies in operation and architecture, strategies and plans and the capabilities and user needs of the digital and Information Services teams.
There are 2 elements to this phase. The findings of the Discovery phase will inform the solution for both hosting the website and the support for the business to manage the CMS.
The supplier will be a digital delivery partner with a strong track record of delivering a number of recent successful digital projects to large competitive organisations with a diverse customer base. They will have demonstrable experience of undertaking major digital projects covering discovery and research, digital strategy and marketing, user experience, personalisation and prototyping, design, build and development.
They will possess a strong track record of providing fully supported, industry-leading cloud- hosted solutions. The delivered solution should be written using open standards rather than proprietary and will be scalable, dynamic and able to adapt to our future needs of engaging with students online and through social media.
Importantly, next year marks our 25th anniversary celebration of achieving University status and we require this project to be delivered by the end of September 2017 to coincide with this landmark.
— To deliver a new fully responsive website that enables the new brand which is currently in development.
— To ensure that the website is designed, developed and structured to aid key user journeys, improve core functionality, usability and navigation. This will be built upon the detailed research that will be carried out as part of the discovery phase.
— To audit and migrate content from multiple micro-sites and sources through to a single site ensuring it fits within the new university structure.
— To ensure that the website is fully optimised to increase traffic from organic search and configured to provide detailed analytics and insight.
— To deliver a best in class technical build, with an improved site search capability and CMS, allowing us to manage, create new content but also deploy micro-sites.