Published date: 19 November 2021

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 22 October 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

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Location of contract

North East

Value of contract

£20,000

Procurement reference

NCL001-DN573799-60002975

Published date

19 November 2021

Closing date

22 October 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

11 November 2021

Contract end date

10 November 2022

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

We are seeking to procure a quality assurance tool to accurately and frequently monitor and report on https://www.ncl.ac.uk/, in terms of:
• ability to see the whole domain and individual sub-domains
• identifying broken links and spelling mistakes
• readability scoring
• accessibility reporting
• content and technical SEO reporting
• easier reporting/exporting of reports across the domain and specific sub-domains
• policies - ability to search for specific things, save the search queries and allow automatic reporting
• reporting on image optimisation opportunities
• CMS integration
• being intuitive and engaging for non-expert web editors
• having tailored access for editors
• training/onboarding with continuous training available online
• mobile responsive reporting
• good crawl frequency and accuracy
• ability to rank sub-domains against each other

We do not currently scan the whole of the web estate. We requiring a pricing breakdown to detail the cost of scanning:
1. up to 35,000 pages
2. up to 50,000 pages
3. All 104,000 pages on ncl.ac.uk

Award information

Awarded date

9 November 2021

Contract start date

11 November 2021

Contract end date

10 November 2022

Total value of contract

£16,984

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Silktide Ltd

Address

17 Brunel Parkway
Derby
Derbyshire
DE1 3NT
United Kingdom

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Natalie Morton

Address

Newcastle University
King's Gate
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
England

Email

Natalie.Morton@ncl.ac.uk

Website

https://www.ncl.ac.uk