Posit R-Studio Cloud · UK public procurement notice

CPV: Software programming and consultancy services

Procedure method

Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Legal basis

CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)

Procurement category

Services

Notice status

Awarded without competition

Procurement threshold

Unspecified in notice

Regulatory regime

Standard

Commercial structure

Stand-alone contract (no framework)

Competition type

Direct award (no call for competition)

GPA / WTO covered

Unspecified in notice

Recurring procurement

Unspecified in notice

First published

20 Oct 2023, 16:55 BST

Last source update

20 Oct 2023, 16:55 BST

FTS notice number

2023/S 000-031107

Classification (CPV)

Software programming and consultancy services

Delivery area

South East (UKJ2)

Official registry OCID

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Why no open competition

The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons

Published justification

This contract is essential for students and staff in our Psychology School. The service has been used for the last year and has been highly beneficial to the school and been central to teaching.

Posit's services are not available through any Frameworks and are below the price for a mandatory open procedure . Other suppliers in the market were explored, namely Noteable, but cannot provide the specific service that Posit does.

Using Noteable the School of Psychology would have no direct control over how servers are set up. For example if they want to install a package for students at short notice it would be impossible. They would have to ask the Noteable team to do this for them. This was a dealbreaker as you sometimes need to update things at very short notice. Posit cloud gives complete control over the student's environment. Individual module leads have direct control over their module workspaces on the cloud.

It was felt that the overall user interface would not serve our specific aim of reducing the technical load (and associated anxiety) on students. In contrast Posit could is simply organised, students just log in and see RStudio (no set up). Our Psychology staff are able to control their environments to keep everything as simple as possible (e.g. pre-install everything they need for particular modules). With posit cloud students can also be organised into groups, have projects/infomration easily shared with them and staff can set up template projects as assignments. It eliminates some term 1 technical material that puts many students off. Posit cloud is purpose-built for making RStudio accessible and easy to use with zero barriers to getting started with the software.

For this reason we are siting the Public Contracts Regulation 32 (b) - "where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons: (ii)competition is absent for technical reasons".

• Posit Software PBC, 250 Northern Avenue Suite 410 Boston Suffolk 02210 UNITED STATES OF AMERICAAwarded supplier Boston, US

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