Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-08-14
Buyer: Education Scotland
Country: UK
Contract type: Supplies
CPV classification: 48730000: Security software package | 80330000

Technical requirements: Education Scotland has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the provision of a Safeguarding product for their Glow environment. Glow is Scotland's national digital environment that offers a number of different services to support learning and teaching across the curriculum. The Safeguarding product will be used to monitor and alert on the activity, interaction and behaviour of users within this environment.
Education Scotland has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the provision of a Safeguarding product for their Glow environment. Glow is Scotland's national digital environment that offers a number of different services to support learning and teaching across the curriculum. The Safeguarding product will be used to monitor and alert on the activity, interaction and behaviour of users within this environment. The Glow environment's core components are Office 365, GSuite and WordPress. The Glow environment is accessed via corporate and personal devices, as such the product should have the capability to monitor these environments and not be device specific (not require software to be loaded on the users endpoint). In addition, Education Scotland would welcome an initial proposal relating to a partnership with Education Scotland for the creation of a Safeguarding product including but not limited to the following capabilities within the O365, GSuite and WordPress environment:
Education Scotland would wish to meet with potential bidders in order to seek views and information from the marketplace on the requirement. This information will be used as background to the procurement strategy and tender documents for the requirement. Once this work is completed, we shall be able to undertake a procurement process which is fully compliant with EU Procurement Directives and Scottish Procurement Regulations to secure the contract. At this stage, we would be interested in receiving a presentation from prospective bidders demonstrating the capabilities of the proposed product.
The dates allocated are 27.8.2018 — 30.8.2018. The presentations would take place at Education Scotland premises in Glasgow or via Teleconference. We anticipate each presentation will last no more than one hour. If you are interested in participating in this exercise, please contact Stephen Phillips at stephen.phillips@gov.scot by no later than 12:00 on 24.8.2018. You should nominate a preferred date and time from the following options:
An introduction to the concept of your product; capabilities; brief use case; security of data; high level technical overview; support provided; indicative costs.
This process will be undertaken entirely on a without commitment basis and no undertaking is given that any company invited to present will be included in the tender process. The presentations shall not be evaluated or scored and shall be excluded from evaluation at the tender stage.
Note: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=547172
Note: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=553403