Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-04-30
Buyer: The Skills Development Scotland Co. Limited
Country: UK
Region: Glasgow City
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72413000: Website design services | 73110000 | 79315000 | 79980000
Estimated value: 182680 GBP
Award criteria: Understanding of project requirements and pertinent sources, Approach and methodology, Meeting delivery time-scales including project plans, Service level agreements/key performance indicators

Technical requirements: Understanding of project requirements and pertinent sources
Approach and methodology
Meeting delivery time-scales including project plans
Service level agreements/key performance indicators
Skills Development Scotland (SDS) is the national skills body supporting the people and businesses of Scotland to develop and apply their skills. SDS was formed in 2008 as a non-departmental public body bringing together careers, skills, training and funding services.
Employing circa 1 300 staff, it plays an important role in supporting individuals reach their potential, helping make skills work for employers and improving the skills and learning system.
A considerable volume of research and analysis is produced on a range of labour market topics, both within the UK and further afield. Rapid access to that body of work would be valuable to researchers, policy makers and others. It would help to ensure that their work is informed by previous research and that needless duplication of effort is minimised.
The main purpose of Research Online: www.researchonline.org.uk — is to provide rapid and free access to a robust source of information about ‘labour market publications’ — including consultancy reports and material produced by economic development organisations, local authorities and other ‘grey’ literature.
Research Online contains abstracts of books, reports and journal articles which address labour market issues such as skills, workforce development, demographics, employers' needs and barriers to employment. Most of the documents are also available in full text and can be downloaded directly from Research Online or via hyperlink.
Skills Development Scotland seeks to maintain and develop its Research Online tool to provide a more effective channel for the dissemination of labour market research. The current service can be seen at: www.researchonline.org.uk
The maintenance, hosting, updating and development of this service is currently outsourced and the service should continue on this basis.
— Arrangements for external hosting, including security aspects, disaster recovery and expected levels of service.
Lot 2 — SDS is also looking to subscribe as an organisation to an online library service on a fixed price basis. The service would be available to all SDS staff. Subject coverage should include but is not limited to the labour market, economic development, employment, education and skills, equalities and diversity and regeneration. Users should be able to access content such as journal articles and online articles via the online library. Other materials such as books and other hard copy items should be made available to the user by post.
In addition a request service should be available to users where they can submit a request for a researcher to do a literature search on their behalf. The results should be available by email and include links to documents/literature in the library and their abstracts.


Winner: Idox Software
Number of bids: 1