Published date: 6 October 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: 15 October 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Software package and information systems - 48000000

Location of contract

LA1 4YW

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

SP/16/815

Published date

6 October 2016

Closing date

15 October 2016

Contract start date

1 November 2016

Contract end date

31 October 2017

Contract type

Supply 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

Lancaster University is seeking to implement a technology solution to manage media content uploaded by and delivered to educators, learners, members of professional services and external audiences as appropriate.
At this stage we are inviting providers of media management systems and services to express their interest in engaging with the University.
We want to implement a system that will help us help us meet our targets for providing technology enhanced learning in the coming years. There is a need to use media as part of the learning process especially for our distance learners. Students and educators need a simple way to upload media to a secure storage location and have those media assets play back on all devices through different applications to different audiences. This will require a system that is accessible, flexible, resilient, secure and device agnostic. The key areas for focus are accessibility, performance and seamless, extensible integration with other systems such as the University's Virtual Learning Environment. Some of the functionality considered to be highly important includes intuitive user interfaces, authentication management, file upload, automatic transcoding, file download and playback on different types of device, comprehensive search tools, resilient secure storage, support and highly effective Business Intelligence capability.

If you believe your organisation can help us by providing appropriate systems and services, we would ask for a short paper (two pages max.) describing what you could offer and providing some indication of cost by Friday 15th October. We also welcome the prospect of discussing the opportunity with you and encourage you to contact us

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About the buyer

Contact name

Angela Wearden

Address

Lancaster
Lancaster
Lancaster
LA1 4YW
United Kingdom

Telephone

01524 594087

Email

a.wearden@lancaster.ac.uk