Student Management Systems and Associated Services

Framework for Student Management Systems and Associated Services for Universities and Colleges in Scotland including: provision of all software and any associated licensing. Potential Services include, but are not limited to: System Implementation; Migration

Support; Consultancy; Support and Maintenance; Hosting. Required solutions should have the capability to operate effectively across multi-campus

environments. The framework agreement includes:

Lot1 - Student Management Systems (Higher Education)

Lot2 - Student Management Systems (Further Education Colleges)

The agreement will be open to the members of Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC Limited) and other UK procurement consortia as listed further below.

Framework for Student Management Systems and Associated Services for Higher Education in Scotland and the wider UK.

Potential Services include, but are not limited to:

System Implementation; Migration Support; Support and Maintenance; Hosting; Configuration and development if required by Institutions.

Solutions should have the capability to operate effectively across multi-campus environments.

This framework agreement is available to participation from Full and Associate Members, and future members, within the UK higher

education regional purchasing consortia as follows:

Advanced Procurement Universities and Colleges (APUC Ltd) and associated members.

http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/#!/members

Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC);

https://www.supc.ac.uk/about-us/our-members/our-members

London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC);

https://www.lupc.ac.uk/member-list

North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC);

https://www.neupc.ac.uk/our-members

North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium (NWUPC);

https://www.nwupc.ac.uk/our-members

Higher Education Purchasing Consortium, Wales (HEPCW).

http://www.hepcw.ac.uk/members/

Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public

Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

Tenderers will be required to submit a Form of tender (Appendix A), FOI disclaimer (Appendix B), APUC Supply Chain Code of Conduct (Appendix D), GDPR Assurance Assessment (Appendix J), Section 1 of the SCM RP Evaluation Tool (Appendix K), which will be available within the ITT.

The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 20963. For more information see:

http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343

The Contracting Authority does not intend to include a sub-contract clause as part of community benefits (as per Section 25 of the

Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014) in this contract for the following reason:

This is a specialist multi-supplier framework within which sub-contracting opportunities are limited.

Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see:

http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2361

A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:

provision of training opportunities to staff and students,

apprenticeships and potential investment in Institution local communities.

The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 20963. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343

The Contracting Authority does not intend to include a sub-contract clause as part of community benefits (as per Section 25 of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014) in this contract for the following reason:

This is a specialist multi-supplier framework for which sub-contracting options are limited.

Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/

A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:

A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:

provision of training opportunities to staff and students,

apprenticeships and potential investment in Institution local communities.