Published date: 13 August 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: 8 September 2021, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

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

Location of contract

LA1 4YW

Value of contract

£50,000 to £80,000

Procurement reference

SP/21/1217

Published date

13 August 2021

Closing date

8 September 2021

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

1 March 2022

Contract end date

29 April 2022

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

Lancaster University Student Records System (LUSI) is an in-house developed system, produced over many years and covering core, and not so core, aspects of the higher education academic model. It currently consists of a legacy, but still actively developed desktop app written in .net (c#, MSSQL) with windows integrated security. In addition, a more recent set of separate web applications written in Angular with token-based authentication and containerised .net core APIs which communicate with the same common MSSQL database that the desktop application uses.

We seek to move to an online only model with a domain-based architecture based more on microservices.

We are looking for a consultant that can work with our senior development team to analyse the current architecture, report on its suitability, design an ideal model and set out the steps we need to take to move towards it.

This includes, but may not be limited to the database architecture, API and middleware, the security model, the use and customisation of frameworks and the UX / UI tools used.

We anticipate a total of 4-6 weeks work.

More information

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Additional text

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Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Angela Wearden

Address

Lancaster
Lancaster
Lancaster
LA1 4YW
United Kingdom

Telephone

01524 594087

Email

a.wearden@lancaster.ac.uk