Published date: 9 January 2020

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.


Closing: 10 February 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • World wide web (www) site operation host services - 72415000

Location of contract

NN1 5PH

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

ITT271

Published date

9 January 2020

Closing date

10 February 2020

Contract start date

30 April 2020

Contract end date

29 April 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The University is looking for a partner to host our public website as well as other blogs and sites related to the university. The host will have a minimum of six years, with at least 1,000 plus users. The allowance of installing multiple wordpress sites with the ability to allow a multisite system on a site.

The University is looking to continue using a WordPress hosting system as a platform service. This service needs to be hosted in Europe, preferably in the UK if possible. The hosting service will be looking at hosting a number of WordPress sites, this includes a Restaurant site, Hotel Site, a Blog site with multi-sites enabled and the main public website for the university which runs multi sites for parts of the university which require a public facing website.

The main public website had over 3 million visitors in the last year and the candidate will need to be able to handle moments of high activity. Also the candidate will be needed to monitor the public website 24 hours a day for a number of days so that any issues can be resolved rapidly. Over the period of the tenancy the Digital Services Team will be looking to continue moving websites, microsites and blogs which are used within the university to the hosting solution, this will include needing multi site enabled for some sites so that microsites and blogs can site under certain sites.

The Contract shall be for a period of 2 years with the option at University discretion to extend for a further year, with a commencement date of 30th April 2020

More information

Links

Additional text

The information and documents for this tender will be accessible from https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofnorthampton
Click on Current Tenders link where you can view the project detail, express an interest and register your Organisation with our e-tendering system.

Once the registration has been accepted and you have received your login details by e:mail you can login to view and download the PQQ in the My Tenders section of the website.

If your company is already registered please do not register again

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Julia Gough

Address

University Drive
Northampton
Northamptonshire
NN1 5PH
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 1604892663

Email

julia.gough@northampton.ac.uk