Public procurement notice: Additional Information
Published: 2016-09-13
Buyer: Nasjonalt organ for kvalitet i utdanningen (NOKUT) (the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education)
Country: NO
Region: Oslo
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Submission deadline: 2016-09-19
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NOKUT has received questions from an interested party. Here are the questions and the accompanying answers.
2. Is there a service layer in the current system for exchanging data with other actors? Answer: No, there is not.
3. Is there a well-functioning data model for the current system? If so, is there a good description of this including a description of the import of data? Answer: NOKUT does not have much knowledge of the technical side of how data is imported to the database and thereafter to the web portal. The supplier has made a system that functions well, which NOKUT does not need further information on. In the tender documentation we have described the part of the data processing that we manage: All data processing up until import.
4. Can you provide examples of relevant areas in requirement point 15? Answer: Point 15 (The system shall be able to exchange data and integrate in a secure way with other portals/databases, both internally in NOKUT and at external actors): It also ought to be able to exchange data with Utdanning.no and/or DBH, which have a lot of data on higher education.
5. Do you have examples of concrete, functional requirements that shall be solved in requirement point 20? Answer: Point 10 (The portal shall have a system for showing texts, graphs, diagrams etc., which is on another level of aggregation that the observation units. This requirement only applies for the educator survey). We do not have any concrete requirements here, but we envisage that data from, for example, our own analyses and a collocation of data from the survey and other sources, either in text form or in graphs, can be added manually by NOKUT. We will leave it up to tenderers to propose/describe the options.
Answer: Tenderers are free to propose systems, including for the database. NOKUT will compare the tenders with each other. Thus, we will not necessarily reuse the current database. NOKUT is in possession of all student data (from the surveys), this can, therefore, be added to any new database. The technology that the database is built on is Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and Entity Framework 6.0.
NOKUT has received questions from an interested party. Here are the questions and the accompanying answers.
2. Is there a service layer in the current system for exchanging data with other actors? Answer: No, there is not.
3. Is there a well-functioning data model for the current system? If so, is there a good description of this including a description of the import of data? Answer: NOKUT does not have much knowledge of the technical side of how data is imported to the database and thereafter to the web portal. The supplier has made a system that functions well, which NOKUT does not need further information on. In the tender documentation we have described the part of the data processing that we manage: All data processing up until import.
4. Can you provide examples of relevant areas in requirement point 15? Answer: Point 15 (The system shall be able to exchange data and integrate in a secure way with other portals/databases, both internally in NOKUT and at external actors): It also ought to be able to exchange data with Utdanning.no and/or DBH, which have a lot of data on higher education.
5. Do you have examples of concrete, functional requirements that shall be solved in requirement point 20? Answer: Point 10 (The portal shall have a system for showing texts, graphs, diagrams etc., which is on another level of aggregation that the observation units. This requirement only applies for the educator survey). We do not have any concrete requirements here, but we envisage that data from, for example, our own analyses and a collocation of data from the survey and other sources, either in text form or in graphs, can be added manually by NOKUT. We will leave it up to tenderers to propose/describe the options.
Answer: Tenderers are free to propose systems, including for the database. NOKUT will compare the tenders with each other. Thus, we will not necessarily reuse the current database. NOKUT is in possession of all student data (from the surveys), this can, therefore, be added to any new database. The technology that the database is built on is Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and Entity Framework 6.0.
NOKUT has received questions from an interested party. Here are the questions and the accompanying answers.
2. Is there a service layer in the current system for exchanging data with other actors? Answer: No, there is not.
3. Is there a well-functioning data model for the current system? If so, is there a good description of this including a description of the import of data? Answer: NOKUT does not have much knowledge of the technical side of how data is imported to the database and thereafter to the web portal. The supplier has made a system that functions well, which NOKUT does not need further information on. In the tender documentation we have described the part of the data processing that we manage: All data processing up until import.