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Student Admissions Processing Service

Buyer: University of Aberdeen →

BuyerUniversity of Aberdeen
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published7 Nov 2023

What is being bought

The University of Aberdeen require a supplier to provide a student application processing service.

Delivery location

UKM50

Categories

Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security 79000000Business and management consultancy and related services 79400000Miscellaneous business and business-related services 79900000Business organisation services 79996000Services furnished by business, professional and specialist organisations 98110000Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security 79000000

Lot details

Lot 1

The University of Aberdeen require a supplier to deliver a Student Admissions Service, managing all aspects of student applications. Additional information: This is a contract award notice.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality — 75
Cost — 25

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security, Business and management consultancy and related services, Miscellaneous business and business-related services, Business organisation services, Services furnished by business, professional and specialist organisationsNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security (79000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 7912,2254 median · 30.4 average (5,093 of 12,225 with a bid count)3.1 average (5,692 of 12,225 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer101 median · 3.3 average (10 of 10 with a bid count)1.4 average (10 of 10 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UKM50525 median · 10.4 average (31 of 52 with a bid count)2.3 average (32 of 52 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Contracts

032907-2023-AU22/110-1

Statusactive

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-03e0f4
Latest release ID032907-2023
Latest release timestampTue Nov 07 2023 11:47:50 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
7 Nov 2023award, contract032907-2023
12 Jul 2023tender019890-2023

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
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12 Jul 2023 · 019890-2023 · tender
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