Welsh Government Tender for HwB Digital Learning Platform
HwB is the Welsh Government’s strategic digital channel to support the delivery of the curriculum in Wales.
United Kingdom-Cardiff: Educational software development services
2020/S 129-318062
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
Postal address: Corporate Procurement Services, Cathays Park
Town: Cardiff
NUTS code: UKL WALES
Postal code: CF10 3NQ
Country: United Kingdom
Contact person: Karen Roberts
E-mail: ICTProcurement@gov.wales
Telephone: +44 3000623300
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0007
I.2)Information about joint procurement
I.3)Communication
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
Hwb Education Digital Learning Platform
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
Hwb, the digital learning platform for Wales, provides its users with a single point of access to a range of centrally-funded, bilingual, digital tools and resources. It is the Welsh Government’s strategic digital channel to support the delivery of the curriculum in Wales by providing education stakeholders with a centralised platform enabling easy access to relevant digital content and tools.
II.1.5)Estimated total value
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
II.2.3)Place of performance
Government Buildings, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
The Welsh Government is committed to delivering a national approach to digital services, enabling maintained schools in Wales to consistently exploit the transformational benefits which digital and technology can have on education.
Hwb, the digital learning platform for Wales, provides its users with a single point of access to a range of centrally-funded, bilingual, digital tools and resources. It is the Welsh Government’s strategic digital channel to support the delivery of the curriculum in Wales by providing education stakeholders with a centralised platform enabling easy access to relevant digital content and tools.
Hwb enables its users to access online tools and resources anywhere, at any time and from a range of web-enabled devices. It also provides tools to help education practitioners create and share their own resources and assignments.
Hwb’s collection of tools and resources includes:
— tools and resources created or commissioned by the Welsh Government and/or its agents;
— tools and resources licensed or bought by the Welsh Government;
— tools and resources made available by ‘trusted sources’; and
— resources created by education practitioners.
To put some context around the scale of the platform there are in the region of 550 000 potential users of the platform and 98 % of schools in Wales are regularly classed as ‘actively engaged’. The average logins per month during term time is over 1 million users and page views are in the region of 3.5 million per month.
In addition to the Hwb platform, this procurement exercise includes the Welsh Government’s internal learning and development platform – Learning Lab, and the Academi Wales web platform which are both currently built on the same technology stack as Hwb.
Please note – the estimated total value includes an optional annual 50 % development cost. The contract value for the core requirements of the tender is GBP 3 375 000. If further developments are required to the platform over the course of the contract, they will be agreed between the supplier and the Welsh Government and paid for out of the additional 50 % allocation.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.6)Estimated value
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The contract to be awarded will be for a 3-year term with a maximum total contract extension of 2 years.
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
This procurement will be an open procedure and is being led by the Welsh Government.
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.1)Suitability to pursue the professional activity, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
The contractor undertakes to maintain its security practices and the Security Policy based on best industry practice guidelines that comply with, and shall maintain certification in accordance with, the following:
4.1.1 the ISO/IEC 27001 (Information Security Requirements Specification); and
4.1.2 the Cyber Essentials Certification.
III.1.2)Economic and financial standing
III.1.3)Technical and professional ability
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
IV.2.1)Previous publication concerning this procedure
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
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
12 months in advance of the contract renewal.
VI.2)Information about electronic workflows
VI.3)Additional information:
This procurement will be an open procedure and is being led by the Welsh Government to appoint a single supplier.
Welsh Government intend to use eTenderWales to administer the procurement. All communications will be sent via eTenderWales.
Note: the authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales;
Etenderwales reference[s] project_44852, itt_82026
Hwb Digital Learning Platform C223/2019/2020
Note: the authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=102348
Under the terms of this contract the successful supplier(s) will be required to deliver community benefits in support of the authority’s economic and social objectives. Accordingly, contract performance conditions may relate in particular to social and environmental considerations. The community benefits included in this contract are:
Community benefits will be a non-core requirement and will not form part of the evaluation criteria. However, submission of a non-core community benefits proposal will be a condition of a compliant bid and is part of the bidders technical submission. Non-core community benefits proposals should be planned on a cost-neutral basis.
(WA Ref:102348)
The buyer considers that this contract is suitable for consortia.
VI.4.1)Review body
Postal address: Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand
Town: London
Postal code: WC2A 2LL
Country: United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 2079477501
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: