Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-03-13
Buyer: University College London
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48190000 | 48217000 | 48219000 | 48219300
Estimated value: 50000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-04-11
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This tender is for the delivery, maintenance, and support of a Course Administration System, which will enable UCL to effectively market, run, and administer short courses. People booking onto courses, could be existing UCL students, private individuals (members of the public), and third parties (e.g. a company booking multiple delegates onto a course.) UCL is seeking a Commercial off-the-Shelf (COTS) solution. Both Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and on premise solutions will be considered. For further information register your interest on Intend and download the documentation with project reference UCL-PROC-610 using this link: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/ucl/. All correspondence should be sent via the Intend system.
UCL require a Course Administration System (CAS) to manage short courses and market them via the UCL www.ucl.ac.uk website.
(a) A solution through which site administrators can efficiently manage and curate UCL’s short courses. Department / faculty administrators should easily and efficiently be able to manage courses offered by their department / faculty, all within role-based permission. The solution should enable reporting appropriate to the user level and utilize templates and workflows;
(b) From a learner perspective, the experience should reflect the UCL’s strong reputation and offer a high-quality user experience;
(d) For courses which include an online element, the solution will need to integrate with UCL’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE – UCLeXtend). UCL currently markets these course through the Life Learning part of the UCL website, and through departmental pages. UCL is seeking a Commercial off-the-Shelf (COTS) solution. Both Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and on premise solutions will be considered. UCL intends to implement the solution and deliver in at least 2 phases. First phase is a small-scale deployment (e.g. limited to one department / faculty), in order to prove the concept. Wider implementation may take a Big Bang or rolling deployment approach – this is dependent on the success of the initial deployment. UCL intends to appoint a single supplier for this solution. For further information register your interest on Intend and download the documentation with project reference UCL-PROC-610 using this link: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/ucl/. All correspondence must be sent via the Intend system.
UCL reserve the right to purchase additional modules, further developments, upgrades or versions as it sees fit.
UCL is not a contracting authority or a body governed by public law as defined by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This procurement process is not regulated by EU or UK public procurement law. Where UCL advertises contracts in the Official Journal of the European Union, it does so on a voluntary basis and does not undertake any obligation to comply with the procurement legislation. UCL reserves its rights in full to adapt or step outside the procedures in the procurement legislation as UCL considers necessary. UCL envisages that there will be some negotiation on the contract terms and commercial aspects of the tender. This may be with one or more suppliers as UCL sees fit. The process seeks to select organisations offering the appropriate capability, capacity and competency.

Eligibility requirements: As set out in the tender documentation.

Award value: 50000