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Published 6 May 2022, 12:05 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Moodle Hosting · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY (Education)

ServicesOpen procedureSME suitable
Published estimate£150,000exc. VAT
Submissions closed 23 Jun 2022awarded 2 Mar 2023
Awarded to Titus Learning Ltd

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The university wishes to migrate its current Moodle provision to SaaS and seeks the services of a hosting company that has the expertise and resources required to meet our maintenance and technical support needs, ideally a Moodle Certified Partner.

  • Recurrence: at the expiry of the current contract, dependent on extensions having been invoked

CPV: Miscellaneous software development services and computer systems

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1The key objectives and deliverables of this project are: 1.Migrate our Moodle…AwardedRenewalPublished value£150,000

The key objectives and deliverables of this project are: 1.Migrate our Moodle environment to SaaS hosting. The chosen supplier will:

  • Provide development, test, and live instances of Moodle
  • Monitor and maintain our database, servers, and back-ups.
  • Upgrade our systems and additional plug-ins
  • Configure, maintain, and develop Moodle integration end points
  • Troubleshoot problems and faults.
  • Apply security patches to ensure that our VLE is not vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
  • Act as a ‘trusted partner’ to proactively alert us to new technical developments, features and functionality, provide guidance on best practice, develop customisations, and share information on relevant trends in the sector to guide future VLE and Digital Learning strategy 2.Documentation/guidance for the Digital Learning Team on escalating problems and faults that they are unable to resolve to the third party. 3.Processes for notification, testing, scheduling and approval of upgrades and configuration changes 4.Academic staff and student user comms and guidance on any changes to the look and feel of the Moodle user interface e.g., changes to menu/block locations, terminology, and content creation processes
Delivery: Yorkshire & Humber · Leeds
Extensions: The university reserves the right to extend the contract for any period up to a maximum of two years, subject to satisfactory contract performance · At the contract expiry, the contract is likely to be renewed by tender.Variant bids: not allowed

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored
  • Price
Conditions of participation1
  • Suitability

    Moodle Certified Service Provider (Hosting)

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Awarded
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Yes · at the expiry of the current contract, dependent on extensions having been invoked
First published
6 May 2022, 12:05 BST
Last source update
3 Mar 2023, 10:05 GMT
Award evaluation window
23 Jun 2022 – …
Authority reference
ITS075LTU
FTS notice number
2023/S 000-006256
Classification (CPV)
Miscellaneous software development services and computer systems
Delivery area
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE42)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0334c9 Find a Tender
Contract terms
Electronic trading
e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment

Publisher note: 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. To view this notice, please click here: <a href="https://neupc.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=764954090" target="_blank">https://neupc.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=764954090</a> GO Reference: GO-202333-PRO-22255831

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
23 Jun 2022, 17:00 BST
Submission channel
{"written"}
Accepted languages
en
Bid validity
90 days from the deadline
Bids opened
23 Jun 2022, 17:00 BST

Timeline

23 Jun 2022 → 3 Mar 2023 · 3 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    23 Jun 2022, 17:00 BST
  2. Bids opened
    23 Jun 2022, 17:00 BST
  3. Notice published
    3 Mar 2023, 10:05 GMT

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Status changed to complete
    3 Mar 2023, 10:05 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £283,9001 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 44 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 2 Mar 2023
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Titus Learning LtdSME£283,900 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
4bids · 4 electronic4——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Leeds Trinity University

Contracting authorityEducationBody governed by public lawEducation Brownberrie Lane, Mark Hayter, Yorkshire & Humber, LS18 5HDContact email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • Titus Learning LtdAwarded supplier08799881 Salts Mill, Victoria Road, Saltaire, Yorkshire & Humber, BD18 3LA

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.