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Title: | UOE/2016/001 - UOE Online Distance Learning Programmes and Services |
Notice type: | Contract Notice |
Authority: | University of Exeter |
Nature of contract: | Services |
Procedure: | Competitive Dialogue |
Short Description: | 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. |
Published: | 19/02/2016 15:16 |
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Section I: Contracting Authority
I.1)Name, Addresses and Contact Point(s):
University of Exeter
Procurement Services,, Northcote House, The Queen's Drive, Exeter, EX4 4QJ, United Kingdom
Tel. +44 1392661000, Fax. +44 1392661001, Email: d.burchill@exeter.ac.uk, URL: www.exeter.ac.uk, URL: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofexeter/aspx/Home
Contact: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofexeter/aspx/Home
Electronic Access URL: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofexeter/aspx/Home
Electronic Submission URL: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofexeter/aspx/Home
Further information can be obtained at: As Above
Specifications and additional documents: As Above
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: As Above
I.2)Type of the contracting authority:
Body governed by public law
I.3) Main activity:
Education
I.4) Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities:
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: No
Section II: Object Of The Contract: SERVICES
II.1)Description
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority: UOE/2016/001 - UOE Online Distance Learning Programmes and Services
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: SERVICES
Service Category: 24
Region Codes: UKK - SOUTH WEST (ENGLAND)
II.1.3) Information about a public contract, a framework or a dynamic purchasing system:The notice involves a public contract
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase:
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.
II.1.6)Common Procurement Vocabulary:
80000000 - Education and training services.
48190000 - Educational software package.
72212190 - Educational software development services.
72200000 - Software programming and consultancy services.
II.1.7) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): No
II.1.8)Lots:
This contract is divided into lots: No
II.1.9)Information about variants:
Variants will be accepted: No
II.2)Quantity Or Scope Of The Contract
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
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.
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range between: 500,000 and 8,000,000
Currency: GBP
II.2.2)Options: No
II.2.3)Information about renewals:
This contract is subject to renewal: Not Provided
II.3)Duration Of The Contract Or Time-Limit For Completion
Duration in months: 120 (from the award of the contract)
Information About Lots
Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial And Technical Information
III.1)Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
Please refer to document UOE/2016/001 - ODLPS PQQ for full list of conditions.
III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
Please refer to document UOE/2016/001 - ODLPS PQQ for full list of conditions.
III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
Please refer to document UOE/2016/001 - ODLPS PQQ for full list of conditions.
III.1.4)Other particular conditions:
The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions:Yes
If Yes, description of particular conditions:
Please refer to document UOE/2016/001 - ODLPS PQQ for full list of conditions.
III.2)Conditions For Participation
III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers:
The Authority will apply all the offences listed in Article 45(1) of Directive 2004/18/EC (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 (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 these 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.
III.2.2)Economic and financial capacity
Economic and financial capacity - means of proof required:
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
Please refer to document UOE/2016/001 - ODLPS PQQ for full list of conditions.
Minimum Level(s) of standards possibly required:
Please refer to document UOE/2016/001 - ODLPS PQQ for full list of conditions.
III.2.3)Technical capacity
Technical capacity - means of proof required
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
Please refer to document UOE/2016/001 - ODLPS PQQ for full list of conditions.
Minimum Level(s) of standards possibly required:
Please refer to document UOE/2016/001 - ODLPS PQQ for full list of conditions.
III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts: Not Provided
III.3)Conditions Specific To Service Contracts
III.3.1)Information about a particular profession:
Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: Not Provided
III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service:
Legal persons should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service: Not Provided
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1)Type Of Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure: Competitive Dialogue
IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate:
Envisaged minimum number: 3 and maximum number: 4
Objective Criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:
Please refer to document UOE/2016/001 - ODLPS PQQ for full list of criteria.
IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue: No
IV.2)Award Criteria
IV.2.1)Award criteria:
The most economically advantageous tender in terms of
The criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction:
An electronic auction will be used: No
IV.3)Administrative Information
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority: UOE/2016/001
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract: Yes
Prior information notice
Notice number in OJEU: 2016/S 13 - 18735 of 20/01/2016
Other previous publications: No
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document:
Date: 22/03/2016
Time-limit for receipt of requests for documents or for accessing documents: 09:00
Payable documents: No
IV.3.4)Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date: 22/03/2016
Time: 12:00
IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates: Not Provided
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up: English
Section VI: Complementary Information
VI.1)This Is A Recurrent Procurement: Not Provided
VI.2)Information about European Union funds:
The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: Yes
Reference to project(s) and/or programme(s): 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.
VI.3)Additional Information: 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 contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.Interested parties/prospective tenderers may only express an interest in participating in this procurement opportunity by registering on the University's e-tendering system, In-Tend at the address: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofexeter/aspx/Home [the address listed at Section I.1 of this notice under heading listed for 'Contact' and submitting an 'expression of interest' against the project called 'UOE/2016/001 ONLINE DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAMMES AND SERVICES' in order to be sent the prequalification questionnaire and all other information available to prospective tenderers at this time.
Interested parties/prospective tenderers should note that all communication including questions about this procurement to the University must be made via the In-Tend portal. No approach of any kind by any potential Tenderer/Tenderer in connection with this procurement process may be made in any other manner or to any person within, or associated with, the University of Exeter [including its representatives].The interested party/prospective tenderer/tenderer is responsible for maintaining the currency of the contact email address registered in In-Tend throughout the procurement process as this will be the method used by the University to issue tender documents and other information to participants to this procurement opportunity.
The University reserves the right to restrict changes to a consortium's membership and a Tenderer's proposed key sub-contractor supply chain in accordance with the requirements provided in the tender documents.
The University reserves the right to reject all or any of the tenders for the proposed contract and/or stop the procurement process or cancel the procurement at any time. The University also reserves the right not to award a contract at any time without any liability on its part.
Please note that the University reserves the right to terminate the procurement process for any reason, including but not limited to: insufficient eligible tenderers, insufficient financing available to allow the completion of the project, [if relevant] planning applications are rejected, or approved with limitations or conditions that in the University's ultimate discretion, render the proposed project unaffordable/unviable.
Nothing in this contract notice, tender documents, contract documents, any other written, or oral communication from the University or its representatives to the prospective tenderers/tenderers shall generate any contractual obligations or intention to create a contract prior to any signature of a final written contract.
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VI.4)Procedures For Appeal
VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
University of Exeter
Procurement Services, Finance Services, Northcote House, The Queen's Drive, Exeter, EX44QJ, United Kingdom
Tel. +44 1392661000, Fax. +44 1392661001, Email: procurement@exeter.ac.uk, URL: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/finance/procurement/
VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals: Not Provided
VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:
Not Provided
VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 19/02/2016
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