Published date: 23 February 2024
Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.
Contract summary
Industry
Educational software package - 48190000
Educational software development services - 72212190
Location of contract
B15 2TT
Value of contract
£0 to £240,000
Procurement reference
FRAM842/24
Published date
23 February 2024
Closing date
25 March 2024
Closing time
12pm
Contract start date
31 July 2024
Contract end date
30 July 2028
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
The University of Birmingham invites tenders for the provision of an integrated solution to support digital accessibility of teaching materials in our Virtual Learning Environment, Canvas VLE.
The University has a number of aims with regards to this solution:
1. The solution should be in place and ready to use from August 2024.
2. For staff, the aim is to improve staff engagement with creating accessible teaching content by providing automated identification of accessibility issues with the VLE and to provide means by which they may remedy these issues, for example by serving point of need guidance and to support them in making improvements with the accessibility of their content.
3. For students, the aim is to provide access to automatically produced accessible alternatives of content within the VLE.
4. For the institution, the aim is to access reports on the accessibility of content within the VLE.
5. The preferred solution(s) will fully integrate in Canvas in a way which provides a consistent experience for students and staff. There should be little to no manual interventions required to synchronise data or user permissions between the solution and Canvas.
6. The preferred solution(s) will have experience working with other Higher Education Institutes in the UK and will have a well-developed Roadmap with a proven track record of meeting Roadmap timescales.
7. There are 38,000 students of which circa 32,000 are based in the University Birmingham's Edgbaston campus, circa 2000 in the University's Dubai campus, and circa 4000 on Distance Learning programmes (current published HESA FTE 33,570). There are also circa 900 students at the University's Jinan-Birmingham-Joint-Institute (JBJI) in China. The preferred solution will need to cater to these variations in student populations, programme types and location.
Supplier demonstrations are expected to take place during the weeks commencing 29th April 2024 and 6th May 2024.
More information
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The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofbirmingham/aspx/Home
Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via the above-mentioned address
About the buyer
Contact name
Chris Morgan
Address
Edgbaston
BIRMINGHAM
B152TT
England
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