Published date: 17 February 2016

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: 11 March 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Software package and information systems - 48000000

Location of contract

LS2 9JT

Value of contract

£100,000 to £150,000

Procurement reference

SF/2405

Published date

17 February 2016

Closing date

11 March 2016

Contract start date

1 September 2016

Contract end date

31 August 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The requirement is to provide a replacement Postgraduate Development (PDR) Management Information system for that which was implemented in September 2011.

The PDR is a University wide web-based application that is accessible to all postgraduate research (PGR) students and all staff involved in the career of a research student (supervisor(s), postgraduate research tutors, advisors, external supervisors, research groups, members of transfer assessment panel and administrators).

The PDR has been developed to support agreed University-wide processes relating to the recording of interaction between research students and their supervisors at the University of Leeds. Specifically, the system has been developed to support;
• Recording of formal supervision meetings
• Recording student training
• Transfer from provisional registration
• Formal reports on student progress

The initial driver for the project was a legal obligation to monitor attendance to meet UK Border Agency (UKBA) arrangements for Tier 4 visas for overseas adult students studying in the UK. The PDR will support UKBA and University requirements by monitoring at least ten contacts between full-time postgraduate research students and supervisors p.a. (five p.a. for part-time students).

The Project wants to build on the success and benefits of the existing system by providing enhanced services to research students, faculty/school staff, student administration staff and examiners.

More information

Links

Additional text

Expressions of interest and access to the ITT documentation is via https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofleeds/aspx/Home

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofleeds/aspx/

About the buyer

Contact name

Colin Challinor

Address

Woodhouse Lane
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
United Kingdom

Telephone

0113 3434104

Email

c.challinor@adm.leeds.ac.uk