Published date: 3 March 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: 12 March 2021, 9am

Contract summary

Industry

  • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

Location of contract

North West

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

Aspire Center Liverpool

Published date

3 March 2021

Closing date

12 March 2021

Closing time

9am

Contract start date

1 April 2021

Contract end date

1 September 2022

Contract type

Works

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

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 Great Schools Trust is firmly focused on helping the students of each of their academies become successful young people who have gained the necessary academic skills, intellectual habits, qualities of character and leadership traits necessary to succeed at all levels and become successful citizens in tomorrow's world. Their actions are based on the trust's fundamental belief that a high quality education is a civil right for all young people and not dependent on their family's wealth or postcode.

The project
ASPIRE Centre Liverpool will be moving into refurbished accommodation at our Kings Liverpool Academy site. As the school is small 40 place alternative provision setting, with an ICT budget well under the EU procurement threshold the Trust will run a "3 quotes" exercise. Along-side the procurement the Trust will design and support the ICT solution at nil-cost to the project to achieve best value from our budget allocation.
We are looking for a partner to provide us with the required professional services and procurement which will also integrate the new systems into our existing systems at our other Academies. We will be implementing an enterprise infrastructure throughout.
Our device strategy will be one-to-one with the students each having a tablet device, this needs to be integrated to the classroom AV so the pupils can project their work onto the projector/TV. Information Technology will also be a core subject at the Academy. The teachers will be provided with a Laptop.

Requirements
Please can you provide us with the following:
1. A day rate for the following: Contract Manager, Project Manager, Senior Systems Manager, Senior Network Engineer.
2. A case study (maximum 1-page A4) on a project of a similar scale and type that you have successfully delivered before.
3. A description of your methodology for engaging with the Trust to understand design requirements for the range of likely users (admin staff, teachers, learners).
4. Provide CV's for key engineering staff

Scoring
We will be scoring on 80% Quality and 20% Value and applying a scoring of 0 to 4 for each weighting as follows:

0: No response
1: Poor compliancy with significant errors or omissions
2: Mostly compliant with minor errors or omissions
3: Compliant and good overall with no errors or omissions
4: Compliant and exceptional or adding value

Key dates:

Please can all bids be summited by 12/03/2021.
Please email J.willetts@greatschoolstrust.com for clarification and to summit your bids.


More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Procurement for the professional services

  • Future opportunity
  • Published 24 January 2019, last edited 24 January 2019


About the buyer

Contact name

John Willetts

Address

Kings Warrington
Warrington
WA14PF
England

Telephone

01925 817939

Email

j.willetts@greatschoolstrust.com