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Published 4 Apr 2025, 11:09 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Tender for the Provision of Student and Staff Micro Learning Courses

Official notice

Authority: Tender for the Provision of Student and Staff Micro Learning Courses

2 lotsServicesOpen procedureSME suitable
Published estimate£204,000total for 2 lots
Submissions closed 7 May 2025awarded 11 Jun 2025
Awarded to Crossroads Global Limited
Contract term 3 yrsends 15 Jun 2028 · extension options published · starts 16 Jun 2025

What is being bought2 lots · detail below

Published requirement description

The University of Warwick is seeking a Service Provider who can provide a micro-learning platform delivering up to four courses per academic year to staff and students with a focus on key Equality, Diversity and Inclusion topics (EDI thereafter), such as, harassment and sexual misconduct, Freedom of Speech, intersectionality, race, neurodiversity, socio-economic/class etc, via QR code, email or another innovative approach to engage all staff and students. The contract is intended to commence June 2025 and run initially for 3 year, with the potential to extend for a further 2 years (3+1+1), subject to performance. The University of Warwick is not a contracting authority for the purposes of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) and its procurement activities are not subject to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 or the obligations under the European Public Procurement Directives, including the European Remedies Directive. Advertisement of any contract in the Official Jou

CPV: Education and training services · Staff training services · Training services · Training software development services · Training software package

Lots and requirements (2)Procurement structure

2 lots · no lot values published
Lot #1Student CoursesCancelledRenewal 3 yrs

The University of Warwick is seeking a Service Provider who can provide a micro-learning platform delivering up to four courses per academic year to students with via QR code, email or another innovative approach to engage selected students. The contract is intended to commence June 2025 and run initially for 3 year, with the potential to extend for a further 2 years (3+1+1), subject to performance. For the courses, the core content should be developed by the Service Providers experts but also needs the flexibility so that it can be tailored and adapted by specified Teams to customise the look and feel of the content, to make it is specific to the requirements of the University of Warwick. The student content would be in relation to harassment and sexual misconduct, engaging c.10,000 students. This service must meet the requirements of the new condition of regulation that the Office for Students is introducing from August 2025.

Contract period: 16 Jun 2025 – 15 Jun 2028 (3 yrs)
Delivery: West Midlands
Extensions: As specified in the tender documentsVariant bids: allowed
Lot #2Staff CoursesCancelledRenewal 3 yrs
Contract period: 16 Jun 2025 – 15 Jun 2028 (3 yrs)
Delivery: West Midlands
Extensions: As specified in the tender documentsVariant bids: 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
Conditions of participation1
  • Suitability

    Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents.

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
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
4 Apr 2025, 11:09 BST
Last source update
27 Aug 2025, 08:33 BST
Award evaluation window
7 May 2025 – …
Authority reference
CDC-04-25-MicroLearning-HK-CA
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-051414
Classification (CPV)
Education and training servicesStaff training servicesTraining servicesTraining software development servicesTraining software package
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG33)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04fd2a Find a Tender
Contract terms
Performance terms

The University's particular requirements will be set out in the Invitation to Tender documentation and may include, inter alia, performance bond(s) and/or bank guarantee(s) and/or other forms of security.Where a consortium or other grouping of suppliers submits a bid, such consortia or grouping must nominate a lead organisation to deal with the Contracting Authority on all matters relating to the Contract. All consortium members or grouping will be required to be jointly and severally liable in respect of the obligations and liabilities relating to the Contract.

Publisher note: Please refer to http://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofwarwick for further information and to express interest. You will be able to download the full tender documents from this site. Any queries in relation to this requirement should be directed to the University of Warwick via the correspondence functionality of the In-tend system. Failure to do so may result in queries being excluded from the procedure.The University expressly reserves the rights:i) Not to award any contract as a result of this procurement process commenced by publication of this notice.ii) To make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition.iii) To award (a) contract(s) in respect of any part(s) of the [services] covered by this notice; andiv) To award contract(s) in stages.Under no circumstances will the University be liable for any costs incurred by candidates.The University of Warwick is not a contracting authority for the purposes of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) and its procurement activities are not subject to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 or the obligations under the European Public Procurement Directives, including the European Remedies Directive. Advertisement of any contract in the Official Journal of the European Union or Contracts Finder is at the sole discretion of the University and is undertaken on a voluntary basis with no implied obligation to comply with the procurement legislation.

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
7 May 2025, 12:00 BST
Submission channel
{"written"}
Accepted languages
en
Bids opened
7 May 2025, 12:00 BST

Timeline

7 May 2025 → 27 Aug 2025 · 4 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    7 May 2025, 12:00 BST
  2. Bids opened
    7 May 2025, 12:00 BST
  3. Contract starts
    16 Jun 2025, 00:00 BST
  4. Notice published
    27 Aug 2025, 08:33 BST

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Status changed to complete
    27 Aug 2025, 08:33 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £98,0001 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 102 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 11 Jun 2025
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Not linked to a lot1 award
Crossroads Global LimitedSME£98,000 †—Awarded

Contracts

  • Tender for the Provision of Student and Staff Micro Learning Courses · Crossroads Global LimitedSME

    Signed
    11 Jun 2025
    Value
    £98,000
    Status
    active

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
10bids · 10 electronic2——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Tender for the Provision of Student and Staff Micro Learning Courses

Contracting authorityBody governed by public lawEducation University House, Kirby Corner Road , Coventry, West Midlands, CV4 7ALContact name, email Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Economic and financial selection criteriatenderEconomic and financial selection criteria
  • Technical selection criteriatenderTechnical selection criteria