Supply of Cloud Based Virtual Learning Environment
The University seeks a solution which will enable the institution to provide exceptional opportunities for online learning.
United Kingdom-Liverpool: Industry specific software package
2016/S 171-307380
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
4th Floor Kingsway House, Hatton Garden
Liverpool
L3 2AJ
United Kingdom
Contact person: Kathryn Houghton
E-mail: k.l.houghton@ljmu.ac.uk
NUTS code: UKD52
I.3)Communication
4th Floor Kingsway House, Hatton Garden
Liverpool
L3 2AJ
United Kingdom
Contact person: Kathryn Houghton
E-mail: k.l.houghton@ljmu.ac.uk
NUTS code: UKD52
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
Agreement for a Virtual Learning Environment — Cloud Based.
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
The University is seeking to renew its institutional online learning provision, with a view to identifying a solution which will be fully operational from August 2107.
The University seeks a solution which will enable the institution to provide exceptional opportunities for online learning.
The system should:
— provide and support a full suite of content management and online learning tools;
— afford a high degree of flexibility to adapt to the changing and future needs of the University;
— be optimised for a range of mobile devices;
— offer an intuitive interface and workflows;
— deliver a high level of availability;
— be secure and resilient;
— support seamless integrations with other University business systems and learning applications;
— produce meaningful usage data and reports to support student learning and academic practice.
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.3)Place of performance
Liverpool.
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
LJMU is seeking to implement a new Virtual Learning Environment which must:
— Support the University’s Strategic Plan, which emphasises the necessity for ‘Confident and active use of technology by staff to enhance and support the student learning experience’.
— Be in the form of a cloud hosted service with at least a 99.9 % access guarantee; safe, robust, scalable and compliant with UK/EU Data Protection Law, and compliant with the LJMU Information Security Policy
— Provide an API framework that actively supports technical integration with LJMU’s other corporate systems, and those used within the context of teaching and learning.
— Have full recovery and restoration capabilities (and clearly articulated RPO and RTO that matches the targets specified in the document) to allow recovery from any major incidents and to allow for the reinstatement of lost or deleted content to ensure this critical service suffers no prolonged outage from which it cannot be recovered.
— Offer an accessible, easy to use desktop and mobile interface, for both staff and students to retrieve course content and complete learning activities.
— Provide the widest possible opportunities to create rich, engaging learning activities to support different pedagogical approaches and assessments.
Be financially sustainable, offering value for money, affordability, flexibility, and adaptability to enhance the service to meet the changing needs of the University.
— Integrate seamlessly with current LJMU systems, e.g. SIS, email, reading list, module evaluation, Turnitin, Panopto, and offer methods to develop and expand the service in the future.
— Provide the ability to produce detailed, meaningful statistical reports on all system activity, and if LJMU choose, for this data to be exportable in a format that LJMU can further interrogate using the institutions preferred BI toolset.
— Provide an intuitive, easy to use assessment environment where all assessment and feedback processes are underpinned by seamless, linear workflows; this should include additional functionality for the creation of media-rich student feedback in video and audio formats.
— Offer an intuitive user notification system with the provision of 2 way integration with social media tools.
— Provide a system which is fully optimised to allow all major mobile operating systems to undertake core VLE functions, and be available on or off campus, over commonly supported browsers.
— Provide the University with a licensing structure which grants access to non LJMU staff and students, where the business case dictates (for example external examiners and validated collaborative provision).
— Be accessible, enabling the University to meet its inclusion principles and legislative obligations.
— Be fully compliant with appropriate sector legislation and institutional regulations.
— Have the ability to support a day-to-day usage level of 1 500 concurrent users, with the ability to scale to an estimated maximum of 3 700 concurrent users without loss of performance.
— Provide high-level security for all data.
The system should have a low risk of becoming obsolete and there should be no significant change requiring an unplanned migration during the contracted period.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
LJMU have the option to extend the contract for an additional 24 months, dependent on the supplier’s satisfactory completion of the initial term.
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
II.2.14)Additional information
LJMU are currently in the process of procuring an E Tendering portal, however at the moment we do not have the facility to provide a url for documents to be accessed. The relevant documentation should be requested electronically via email to k.l.Houghton@ljmu.ac.uk
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.2)Economic and financial standing
III.1.3)Technical and professional ability
III.2.2)Contract performance conditions:
As detailed within the tender documents.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:
IV.2.6)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
IV.2.7)Conditions for opening of tenders
LJMU, Procurement Services, Finance, 4th Floor Kingsway House, Hatton Garden, Liverpool L3 2AJ.
LJMU Staff.
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.2)Information about electronic workflows
VI.3)Additional information:
LJMU are in the process of purchasing an E Tendering Portal, at this time we do not have this facility. All relevant tender documentation can be requested via email to k.l.Houghton@ljmu.ac.uk
VI.4.1)Review body
Liverpool
United Kingdom
VI.4.2)Body responsible for mediation procedures
Liverpool
United Kingdom
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
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