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Published 29 Jul 2022, 11:04 BST

Official UK procurement notice

(NU/1589 – 68) Postgraduate and Undergraduate Tracking and Insight Products

Official notice

Authority: Newcastle University (Education)

Dynamic marketServicesRestricted procedureSME suitable
Dynamic market estimateValue not publishedmarket-wide estimate, not attributable revenue
Awarded 27 Jul 2022

What is being bought

Published requirement description

We are seeking to appoint a supplier to provide continuous tracking data on HE applicant needs, intentions, motivations, and decisions across both the undergraduate and postgraduate markets.

The supplier specifically is required to provide the following products and services:

Products

  1. Access to Undergraduate Applicant key trends, tracking their changing needs, intentions, motivations, and decisions based on annual data collection from 2006 to the present, including:

a) Exploration of key decision-making factors

b) Benchmarking of all individual UK HEI’s performance

c) Benchmarking of key trends based on subject choice

d) Filtering at demographic, institutional, academic, attitudinal, and user segmentation levels

e) Qualitative and emotional drivers – fully explorable verbatim comments to highlight key research areas

  1. Access to Postgraduate Applicant key trends, tracking their changing needs, intentions, motivations, and decisions based on annual data collection from 2013 to the present, including:

a) Exploration of key decision-making factors

b) Benchmarking of all individual UK HEI’s performance

c) Benchmarking of key trends based on subject choice

d) Filtering at demographic, institutional, academic, attitudinal and user segmentation levels

e) Qualitative and emotional drivers – fully explorable verbatim comments to highlight key research areas

Services

  1. Direct access to a suite of dashboards to fully explore the data at a granular level across these 2 key market areas: Undergraduate, Postgraduate
  2. Annual workshops to deep dive on key analysis areas with the suppliers’ senior researchers, access to periodic expert trends and insight reports based on the latest data from the tracking suite and opportunities to form student/applicant panels for exploration of key themes.
  3. Access to a research panel of 150,000 highly profiled 16-30s, who are available for online surveys, trackers, polling, audience measurement, benchmark studies and other research projects.
  4. Provide a single Account Manager for updating and managing the products.

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How this dynamic market works

From the published notice
Type
Dynamic market
Bids received
1 bids received · 1 suppliers appointed
Electronic auction
yes

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

What it takes to win
i

How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored
Price: 25
Published sub-criteria (1)
  • Associated costs and fees: 25
Published award criteria (2)
  • Ability to meet the Requirements: P/F
  • Associated costs and fees: 25
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 25 of 25 points: a 10% discount moves about 2.5 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
  • “(NU/1589 – 68) Postgraduate and Undergraduate Tracking and Insight…” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Restricted procedure
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
Dynamic market
Who may use this agreement
Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
29 Jul 2022, 11:04 BST
Last source update
29 Jul 2022, 11:04 BST
Authority reference
DN622153
FTS notice number
2022/S 000-020764
Classification (CPV)
Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and securityMarketing management consultancy servicesMarketing servicesProgramming services of packaged software productsSales or marketing software development servicesSales or marketing software packageSales, marketing and business intelligence software development servicesSales, marketing and business intelligence software package
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03574f Find a Tender
Review and risk notes
Review procedure

The University will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the

contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the

award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days,

provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the

contract is entered into.

The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No 102) provide for aggrieved parties who

have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High

Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) within 30 days of knowledge or constructive

knowledge of breach.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Suppliers appointed 1admitted to the panel · see the list ↓
Bids received 11 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 27 Jul 2022

1 suppliers are admitted to this dynamic market without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.

Contracts

  • (NU/1589 – 68) Postgraduate and Undergraduate Tracking and Insight Products

    Signed
    27 Jul 2022
    Value
    £12,750
    Status
    active

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
1bids · 1 electronic · 1 from abroad1——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Newcastle University

Contracting authorityEducationBody governed by public lawEducation Newcastle University, King's Gate, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RUContact email

Suppliers admitted to the dynamic market

1 commercial party on the notice
  • YouthSightAdmitted to the market 6th Floor Crystal Gate 28/30 Worship Street, London, UK, EC2A 2AH

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.