Module Transformation Services related to Social Learning Platform

CPV: E-learning services · Higher education services

Procedure method

Negotiated without publication of a contract notice

Legal basis

CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)

Procurement category

Services

Notice status

Awarded

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

Unspecified in notice

First published

15 Jul 2021, 10:36 BST

Last source update

15 Jul 2021, 10:36 BST

FTS notice number

2021/S 000-016579

Classification (CPV)

E-learning servicesHigher education services

Delivery area

West Midlands (UKG3)

Official registry OCID

ocds-h6vhtk-02c835 Find a Tender

Why no open competition

Additional deliveries by the original supplier ordered under the strict conditions stated in the directive

Published justification

On 5 July 2019, Coventry University placed a contract notice 2019/S129-316659 in the Official Journal of the European Union seeking tenders from potential suppliers using the open procedure for a Digital Learning Ecosystem Transformation Partner.

Coventry University sought a supplier to assist it with the transformation of its digital teaching and learning offering, including by providing a social learning platform to sit at the core of Coventry University's EdTech ecosystem.

Following this process, Aula Education Limited ("Aula") was identified as the preferred bidder, and was awarded the contract on 11 December 2019 (the "Main Agreement"). Since then, Coventry University has migrated all of its students and teaching staff onto Aula's social learning platform (the "Platform"), which now forms an integral and critical role at the core of Coventry University's EdTech ecosystem.

Aula's Platform brings a different and unique approach to digital teaching and learning. In light of the ongoing global pandemic, and a general movement in higher education towards offering digital teaching and learning, Coventry University has identified a need for learning design and transformation services specifically tailored to the Platform, to transform the modules delivered on the Platform so that they are suitable for online and blended delivery via the Platform ("Transformation Services").

Such Transformation Services are required to enable Coventry University to continue to fully utilise the Platform and all of the Platform's functionality and capabilities, to standardise the teaching and learning delivered on the Platform to ensure consistency and excellence in student experience, and to enhance Coventry University's digital teaching and learning delivery on the Platform. As the Platform is core to Coventry University's EdTech ecosystem, the Transformation Services are likewise core to the delivery of Coventry University's digital teaching and learning programme and strategy.

As the Platform is provided by Aula and the Transformation Services required are specific to Aula's Platform, Coventry University considers that Aula is the only supplier in the market who could effectively deliver the Transformation Services. Procuring the Transformation Services from a different supplier at this stage would cause significant disruption to Coventry University's digital teaching and learning offering, which remains a fundamental offering in light of the ongoing global pandemic. Coventry University does not consider that another supplier would be able to meet its requirements in respect of the Transformation Services considering the specificity of its requirements in relation to the Aula Platform, and the fact that the functionality of the Platform, and detailed knowledge thereof, is integral to the effective delivery of the Transformation Services.

• Aula Education LimitedAwarded supplier Unit 210-211 Canalot Studios 222 Kensal Road, London, London, W10 5BN

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