Published date: 27 June 2024

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: 31 July 2024, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Door locks - 44521110

  • Electronic security lock - 44521120

Location of contract

PO19 6PE

Value of contract

£0.01

Procurement reference

TND-0001099

Published date

27 June 2024

Closing date

31 July 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

30 August 2024

Contract end date

29 August 2029

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 University of Chichester is seeking to establish a partner to work with us to converge our current door lock solutions to integrated (lock) solutions with a long life span, with relevant, convenient and easy to use, standards based methods for current and future generations for staff, students, customers and visitors. This means that we are interested to consider flexible, multiple-token solutions including operation through mobile phones and biometrics. Ideally this would be with minimised, low maintenance devices and controllers and minimal cabling to infrastructure to each door.

The University is a forward looking institution with a rich history that goes back to the 1839. There are around 110 buildings in total, some of which are interconnected or in clusters. Of these, some are modern, but there are also buildings whose construction pre-dates the University. Most buildings are located on the University's two campuses, with off campus student residences Stocksbridge (+405 rooms) and Fishbourne (+134 rooms). These buildings are variously used for teaching, student accommodation and administering the University, but also for public access and bookable facilities (sports halls etc) and hosts conferencing, sports, and other events.

Premises are secured with a range of facilities, from hard (physical key) locks, but also (and increasingly) e-locks. These have developed over time, and with different solutions, across locks that enable internal and external facing doors, powered doors, and facilities such as parking barriers.

Over time, we aim to bring together the governance and allocation of soft 'keys' (tokens/credentials), with ease of allocation, integrity, and of course rapidity and automation for terminating access, in a robust, easy to use and coherent (single) management system.

Updating the student room's doors is our first priority, and we anticipate transitioning over locks and management. Usability, future-reproofing, security, any-time any-place and ease of use for operating the management system are key factors. Our general design principles are around, simplification, standardising, low maintenance, security, and supportability and are very much reflective of sustainability in all supply, materials, operation, and longevity.

Full details of our requirements are available in the tender documents.

There is no need to notify the University with your 'Expression of Interest' as all tender documents, Questions and Answers are open to all bidders. But please do send your completed submission, including contact details in Section 1, and responses to sections 2 AND 3, to the University by the closing date of 31st July 2024 at 12:00 (Noon), to tenders@chi.ac.uk.

Please note, we do not accept submissions via file transfer sites. tenders@chi.ac.uk accepts emails and attachments of up to 35MB and it is acceptable to submit in more than one email.

More information

Attachments

Links

  • https://help.chi.ac.uk/tenders
  • Bidding documents
  • All details for contacting the University and for submission are contained within the document tender document available at this URL. The document and any subsequent questions and answers will be published at this URL.

About the buyer

Address

Bishop Otter Campus,College Lane
CHICHESTER
PO196PE
England

Telephone

01243 816000

Email

tenders@chi.ac.uk

Website

help.chi.ac.uk/tenders