Official UK procurement notice
University Student Information System
Authority: University of East Anglia (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a contract for the provision of a student information ("SITS") system for the University of East Anglia ("UEA"). Tribal Education Limited has been providing the service to UEA for a number of years and the proper and uninterrupted functioning of UEA's SITS system is vital to the institution. The current SITS system, provided by Tribal Education Limited, is now running as an unsupported version due to contract expiration. It is therefore paramount that SITS support is obtained, to negate the risk currently borne due to use of an unsupported system.
Following market research, UEA is of the opinion that its requirements can only be met by Tribal Education Limited. UEA has therefore contracted with Tribal Education Limited for the support and maintenance of its SITS service to ensure that it receives the latest update from Tribal, to a cloud based system, which will be fully supported to provide operational resilience to UEA for this core service.
CPV: Software programming and consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 10 Aug 2022, 16:37 BST
- Last source update
- 10 Aug 2022, 16:37 BST
- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-022064- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-035abdFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
UEA has determined that the award of this contract is permitted by Regulation 32(b)(ii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 in that there are significant inter-operability requirements to deliver the next system update from Tribal. It follows that UEA has concluded that there is no reasonable alternative or substitute and this absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement.
Publisher note: The remedies rules are set out in Part 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tribal Education Limited | £3,227,919 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 022064-2022-1 · Tribal Education Limited
- Signed
- 1 Aug 2022
- Value
- £3,227,919
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Chancery Division of the High CourtReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Tribal Education LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.