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# (NU/1589 – 22) Digital Support for VOICE at NICA (National Innovation Centre for Ageing)

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/nu-1589-22-digital-support-for-voice-at-nica-national-innovation-centre-for-ageing-ocds-h6vhtk-02b8c9). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Newcastle University: "(NU/1589 – 22) Digital Support for VOICE at NICA (National Innovation Centre for Ageing)". Published status: complete. Dynamic Market Estimate: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Newcastle University](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/newcastle-university-GB-FTS-95021)
- **Dynamic Market Estimate (lifetime call-offs):** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Restricted procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security, IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02b8c9`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/nu-1589-22-digital-support-for-voice-at-nica-national-innovation-centre-for-ageing-ocds-h6vhtk-02b8c9#tl-md)

## Description
VOICE was established by Newcastle University to capture the vast experience and mental capital of the public. The digital platform was launched in Autumn 2016, and has revolutionised the ways in which members of the public can contribute their experience, ideas, insights and vision to benefit research and innovation, especially around ageing and demographic change.
The existing VOICE digital platform, www.voice-global.org, has allowed us to significantly scale our activity to better serve the public, as well as offering innovative ways for researchers and businesses to harness the public’s ideas and knowledge.
We are seeking to appoint a supplier to provide a support and maintenance retainer for 8 days a month, for a total period of 9 months for the platform.
The supplier will work alongside an internal development team and will provide dedicated resource for bug fixing live issues, making urgent change requests and CMS support – as well as implementing improvements and developing new functionality.  The VOICE team need to have access to a service desk system to report issues with the platform, and each request will be subject to an agreed approach based on urgency and priority.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Web Services, SEO and Digital Content
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 72000000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Newcastle University invites bids to join a Dynamic Purchasing System it is establishing for
the supply of a range of marketing services.
The Newcastle University Marketing Department is a comprehensive, world-class marketing
team dedicated to servin...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** (NU/1589 – 22) Digital Support for VOICE at NICA (National Innovation Centre for Ageing) (active)
  - Award id: `012632-2021-NU/1589 – 22-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Sideshow Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-17041`
  - Value: £48,600 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** (NU/1589 – 22) Digital Support for VOICE at NICA (National Innovation Centre for Ageing) (active)
  - Signed Value: £48,600
  - Signed Date: 25/05/2021

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F012632-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-06-07T09:25:05.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T13:07:51.456Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02b8c9