Published date: 8 April 2020

Last edited date: 8 April 2020

Closed future opportunity - This means that a potential contract has passed its approach to market date. A buyer can choose to consider any supplier interest or convert this notice into an opportunity ready for live procurement.


Approach to market date: 8 April 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Software package and information systems - 48000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

BC/01271

Published date

8 April 2020

Approach to market date

8 April 2020

Contract start date

1 June 2020

Contract end date

31 May 2021

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.

This is an accelerated procedure.

Justification

Due to COVID-19 the students British Council works with are unable to attend examinations in person. In order for the British Council to continue delivering examinations for our students across the world we need to procure services to support an alternative solution as soon as possible. This is to allow us to deliver examinations in the coming months and reduce the impact on the students we work with.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

The British Council is seeking suppliers with the necessary capacity and capability to provide Remote Proctoring solutions.

It is important to note that we will only be issuing the tender pack once suppliers have completed a Non-Disclosure Agreement. Therefore, once you have registered an account please download the Non-Disclosure Agreement and return via the Correspondence tab at the earliest opportunity. It is important that the NDAs are returned via Correspondence, if they are submitted as a normal tender return document we will be unable to retrieve them.

We intend to release the tender pack on Friday 17 April and will do this via the Correspondence tab. We will provide updates as soon as available.

Please be aware that this tender will be conducted using the British Council's procurement portal. If you feel this tender may be of interest you can create an account at the following webpage: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/britishcouncil/aspx/Home


Please register an account and return a completed Non-Disclosure Agreement by midday Thursday 16 April to ensure you receive the tender pack at the earliest opportunity.


More information

Spend profile

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Financial year Budget
2020/2021 £0

Additional text

Please be aware that this tender will be conducted using the British Council's procurement portal. If you feel this tender may be of interest you can create an account at the following webpage: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/britishcouncil/aspx/Home


Please register an account and return a completed Non-Disclosure Agreement by midday Thursday 16 April to ensure you receive the tender pack at the earliest opportunity.


About the buyer

Contact name

Charlie Loveday

Address

10 Spring Gardens
LONDON
SW1A2BN
England

Telephone

01619577631

Email

charlie.loveday@britishcouncil.org