Published date: 17 February 2021

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 March 2021, 10am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Document management system - 48311100

  • Database systems - 48610000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£60,000 to £100,000

Procurement reference

701543408

Published date

17 February 2021

Closing date

10 March 2021

Closing time

10am

Contract start date

16 March 2021

Contract end date

15 March 2024

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?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Defence Awarding Organisation (DAO) requires a digitalised qualification management system (QMS) to improve efficiency, reduce regulatory risk and grow capacity to meet increasing Defence demand.

The awarding organisation (AO) landscape is moving from physical printed certification to digital certificates and the regulatory burden is increasing, resulting in the DAO requiring stronger compliance processes across its centres; otherwise, DAO risk the chance of regulatory sanction. Consequently, to help future proof, and reduce risk, DAO requires a QMS that provides:

- Governance control
- Qualification development and management
- Centre control
- Digital certification

DAO needs to align with Defence Academy's (DefAc), intent to become a digital academy and offer eCertificates and only physical 'printed' qualification certification as an option for the learner, thus removing default manual certificate process that currently exists within DAO and across all centres.

The requirement is for a new scalable DAO QMS, to support the existing DAO portfolio of 123 regulated qualifications, with freedom to expand, managed across 32+ active DAO centres and awarding qualifications to 20-30k+ learners per year.


Responses to this Invitation to Tender must be uploaded on to the Defence Sourcing Portal (DSP) by no later than the tender return date specified. Please refer to the Notice for Tenderers / Submission of Tender for further information.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Karla Gill

Address

Room 103 Trenchard
Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
Shrivenham
SN6 8LA
England

Email

karla.gill@da.mod.uk