Official UK procurement notice
(NU/1589 – 68) Postgraduate and Undergraduate Tracking and Insight Products
Authority: Newcastle University (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWe are seeking to appoint a supplier to provide continuous tracking data on HE applicant needs, intentions, motivations, and decisions across both the undergraduate and postgraduate markets.
The supplier specifically is required to provide the following products and services:
Products
- Access to Undergraduate Applicant key trends, tracking their changing needs, intentions, motivations, and decisions based on annual data collection from 2006 to the present, including:
a) Exploration of key decision-making factors
b) Benchmarking of all individual UK HEI’s performance
c) Benchmarking of key trends based on subject choice
d) Filtering at demographic, institutional, academic, attitudinal, and user segmentation levels
e) Qualitative and emotional drivers – fully explorable verbatim comments to highlight key research areas
- Access to Postgraduate Applicant key trends, tracking their changing needs, intentions, motivations, and decisions based on annual data collection from 2013 to the present, including:
a) Exploration of key decision-making factors
b) Benchmarking of all individual UK HEI’s performance
c) Benchmarking of key trends based on subject choice
d) Filtering at demographic, institutional, academic, attitudinal and user segmentation levels
e) Qualitative and emotional drivers – fully explorable verbatim comments to highlight key research areas
Services
- Direct access to a suite of dashboards to fully explore the data at a granular level across these 2 key market areas: Undergraduate, Postgraduate
- Annual workshops to deep dive on key analysis areas with the suppliers’ senior researchers, access to periodic expert trends and insight reports based on the latest data from the tracking suite and opportunities to form student/applicant panels for exploration of key themes.
- Access to a research panel of 150,000 highly profiled 16-30s, who are available for online surveys, trackers, polling, audience measurement, benchmark studies and other research projects.
- Provide a single Account Manager for updating and managing the products.
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How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market
- Bids received
- 1 bids received · 1 suppliers appointed
- Electronic auction
- yes
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
What it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
Published sub-criteria (1)
- Associated costs and fees: 25
Published award criteria (2)
- Ability to meet the Requirements: P/F
- Associated costs and fees: 25
- Price carries 25 of 25 points: a 10% discount moves about 2.5 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- “(NU/1589 – 68) Postgraduate and Undergraduate Tracking and Insight…” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Restricted 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
- Dynamic market
- Who may use this agreement
- Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 29 Jul 2022, 11:04 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Jul 2022, 11:04 BST
- Authority reference
DN622153- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-020764- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03574fFind a Tender
- Review procedure
The University will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the
contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the
award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days,
provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the
contract is entered into.
The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No 102) provide for aggrieved parties who
have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High
Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) within 30 days of knowledge or constructive
knowledge of breach.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 suppliers are admitted to this dynamic market without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
(NU/1589 – 68) Postgraduate and Undergraduate Tracking and Insight Products
- Signed
- 27 Jul 2022
- Value
- £12,750
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids · 1 electronic · 1 from abroad | 1 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Suppliers admitted to the dynamic market
1 commercial party on the notice- YouthSightAdmitted to the market
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.