Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-02-24
Buyer: University of Exeter
Country: UK
Region: SOUTH WEST (ENGLAND)
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 48190000 | 72200000 | 72212190 | 80000000
Estimated value: 500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-03-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ERDF

Technical requirements: Education and training services. Educational software package. Educational software development services. Software programming and consultancy services. The University has for some years supported small scale development of on line distance learning, and more recently has begun to create course content for use in Massive Open On Line Courses (MOOCs) and to support the re-use of content across a range of purposes, such as recruitment and outreach, undergraduate on campus-learning, postgraduate learning and alumni engagement, in order to maximise the return on what, for high quality content, is a significant investment.
The University has just completed a strategic review of its postgraduate taught portfolio and introduced a new revenue development process to deliver changes that will generate improved margin on existing activities or new high margin activities. This has resulted in a number of proposals for new postgraduate and undergraduate programmes increasing the demand for flexibly delivered education of all kinds including executive education; block-taught intensive courses; blended learning and on-line provision over the next 5-10 years of service.
Coupled with the above it is the University's ambition to strengthen its position as one of the top 100 universities in the world through expansion of its online teaching. To realise its ambition the University is expanding and transforming online operations to:
i. Launch a suite of online programmes (especially at Masters Level) to a worldwide audience by 2020.
ii. Achieve a step change in the digital capabilities of its academic staff and professional services in order to meet the fast expanding digital expectations and demand from the students it recruits.
iii. Identify a high quality commercial partner with the necessary profile and expertise in the online education sector to assist the University across its strategic online agenda.
The primary objective of this project is to deliver a number of programmes during the academic year 2016/17 and beyond. Individual templates (proposals) of work covering each online degree programme will be agreed on a case by case basis and there is no guarantee of any volume or final number of statements of work. The University has a maximum budget to achieve this goal of up to 8 000 000 GBP (Inc. VAT) over 10 years, with the expectation that the agreement will be reviewed after a period of 3 years and then extended up to a maximum of 10 years subject to set performance criteria.
Responsibility for individual elements of programme delivery will be assigned on a programme by programme basis, however the specified budget is to cover all aspects of the delivery of the project including programme research, design/development, accreditation, implementation, delivery and associated support, licences, permissions, consultancy, all expenses, training and the annual support maintenance charges throughout the contract term where it is agreed the Supplier is responsible.
The Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 45(1) of Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council  (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2006 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 45(2) of Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council  (see also Regulation 23(2) in the PCR 2006) to the decision of whether a Candidate is eligible to be invited to tender.
A full list of the Regulation 23(1) and 23(2) criteria are at http://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#pcr
Candidates will be required to answer these questions as part of the qualification process. For candidates who are registered overseas, you will need to declare if you have any offences/misconduct under your own countries laws, where these laws are equivalent to the Regulation 23 lists.
Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 45(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest for doing so.
Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 45(2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the Authority.
In addition to the University of Exeter provided secured funds, it is a possibility that the Onlien Distance Learning Programmes and Services project may attract future funding from external sources originating from existing and future research grant applications. These may be from a range of funding sources including the EU, these may include but not be limited to: ERDF, RCUK, NERC, AHRC, BBSRC, ESRC, EPSRC, MRC, STFC and the Welcome Trust.
The primary objective of this project is to deliver a number of programmes during the academic year 2016/17 and beyond. Individual templates (proposals) of work covering each online degree programme will be agreed on a case by case basis and there is no guarantee of any volume or final number of statements of work. The University has a maximum budget to achieve this goal of up to 8 000 000 GBP (Inc. VAT) over 10 years, with the expectation that the agreement will be reviewed after a period of 3 years and then extended up to a maximum of 10 years subject to set performance criteria.

Eligibility requirements: The Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 45(1) of Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council  (implemented as Regulation 23(1) of the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2006 in the UK) and all of the professional misconducts listed at Article 45(2) of Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council  (see also Regulation 23(2) in the PCR 2006) to the decision of whether a Candidate is eligible to be invited to tender. A full list of the Regulation 23(1) and 23(2) criteria are at http://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/project/reasonsForExclusion.html#pcr Candidates will be required to answer these questions as part of the qualification process. For candidates who are registered overseas, you will need to declare if you have any offences/misconduct under your own countries laws, where these laws are equivalent to the Regulation 23 lists. Candidates who have been convicted of any of the offences under Article 45(1) are ineligible and will not be selected to bid, unless there are overriding requirements in the general interest for doing so. Candidates who are guilty of any of the offences, circumstances or misconduct under Article 45(2) may be excluded from being selected to bid at the discretion of the Authority. Please refer to document UOE/2016/001 — ODLPS PQQ for full list of conditions. Please refer to document UOE/2016/001 — ODLPS PQQ for full list of conditions. Please refer to document UOE/2016/001 — ODLPS PQQ for full list of conditions. Please refer to document UOE/2016/001 — ODLPS PQQ for full list of conditions.
Please refer to document UOE/2016/001 — ODLPS PQQ for full list of conditions. Please refer to document UOE/2016/001 — ODLPS PQQ for full list of conditions.
Please refer to document UOE/2016/001 — ODLPS PQQ for full list of conditions.