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Published 17 Feb 2025, 12:50 GMT

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Contract For The Provision of Online Programme Management

Official notice

Authority: UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER (Education)

ServicesOpen procedure
Published estimate£40,000,000exc. VAT
Submissions closed 20 Mar 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Contract For The Provision of Online Programme Management

Return Date: 12 Noon Thursday 20th of March 2025

The University of Winchester is seeking to increase enrolments onto its Master's courses by establishing a partnership with an Online Programme Management (OPM) provider.

The University of Winchester has been providing higher education in the UK since 1840. With specialism in teacher training (rated Outstanding by Ofsted), nursing, psychology, business management, accountancy, criminology, law, history, and film production amongst other subject areas, it has a suite of existing Masters courses that it is seeking to make more accessible to a wider market via an online offering.

As part of this process, we are looking to invite proposals from providers interested in partnering with the University to provide these services. We are seeking a partner to work with to develop and deliver our own postgraduate courses wholly online.

CPV: Educational software package · Software programming and consultancy services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1The University of Winchester is seeking to increase enrolments onto its Master's…Published value£40,000,000

The University of Winchester is seeking to increase enrolments onto its Master's courses by establishing a partnership with an Online Programme Management (OPM) provider.

The University of Winchester has been providing higher education in the UK since 1840. With specialism in teacher training (rated Outstanding by Ofsted), nursing, psychology, business management, accountancy, criminology, law, history, and film production amongst other subject areas, it has a suite of existing Masters courses that it is seeking to make more accessible to a wider market via an online offering.

As part of this process, we are looking to invite proposals from providers interested in partnering with the University to provide these services. We are seeking a partner to work with to develop and deliver our own postgraduate courses wholly online.

Delivery: South East · University of Winchester - Online
Extensions: 5 Year Contract with an option to extend for a further 3 YearsVariant bids: allowed

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    The University of Winchester is seeking to increase enrolments onto its Master's courses by establishing a partnership with an Online Programme Management (OPM) provider.

    The University of Winchester has been providing higher education in the UK since 1840. With specialism in teacher training (rated Outstanding by Ofsted), nursing, psychology, business management, accountancy, criminology, law, history, and film production amongst other subject areas, it has a suite of existing Masters courses that it is seeking to make more accessible to a wider market via an online offering.

    As part of this process, we are looking to invite proposals from providers interested in partnering with the University to provide these services. We are seeking a partner to work with to develop and deliver our own postgraduate courses wholly online.

    Full details can be found at - in-tendhost.co.uk/winchester/aspx/Home ↗

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Closed
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
17 Feb 2025, 12:50 GMT
Last source update
17 Feb 2025, 12:50 GMT
Award evaluation window
21 Mar 2025 – …
Authority reference
25/AG/001
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-005362
Classification (CPV)
Educational software packageSoftware programming and consultancy services
Delivery area
South East (UKJ)
Official registry OCID
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How it was run

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Submission deadline
20 Mar 2025, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Bids opened
21 Mar 2025, 12:00 GMT
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

17 Feb 2025 → 21 Mar 2025 · 3 dates
  1. Notice published
    17 Feb 2025, 12:50 GMT
  2. Submission deadline
    20 Mar 2025, 12:00 GMT
  3. Bids opened
    21 Mar 2025, 12:00 GMT

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER

Contracting authorityEducationBody governed by public lawEducation GB-UKPRN: University of Winchester Sparkford Road, WINCHESTER, South East, SO224NRContact name, email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Official documents & specifications

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