VEAT Notice Intention to award a public services contract for provision of HE specific research, best practice & market insights consultancy.

CPV: Business and management consultancy and related services

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

31 Mar 2023, 18:34 BST

Last source update

22 May 2024, 16:06 BST

Authority reference

KU/443/EE/MB/2023

FTS notice number

2024/S 000-016214

Classification (CPV)

Business and management consultancy and related services

Delivery area

UK

Official registry OCID

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Why no open competition

The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights

Published justification

EAB provide a holistic and unlimited partnership that combines research and consulting to help higher education leaders respond to their greatest challenges and move strategic initiatives forward. Keele will gain access to 15+ years of ongoing and wide-ranging research on every major functional domain in higher education. This includes proven best practices and detailed solutions surfaced from peer institutions and syntheses of higher education data, research, and information into easily digestible, action-oriented resources focused addressing specific goals and challenges.

EAB ensures impact and ROI by assigning an individual Strategic Leader who learns your organisation and culture to steer your team to the right answers and resources. This expert is

responsible for facilitating change management, providing decision support, and convening cross-functional teams on subjects of strategic importance.

This combination of research and unlimited holistic expert support is unique and unavailable elsewhere. Further evidence of the specific unique characteristics of partnership are

provided here:

• EAB is the only organisation that provides original best practice research and unlimited strategic support that is cross-functional and comprehensive across the full range of issue areas in higher education, including academic affairs, enrolment management, student affairs, online and professional education, business affairs, information technology, estates, the research enterprise, and advancement, as well as the broader educational ecosystem.

No other vendor to our knowledge has expertise that is solely dedicated to Higher Ed and spans the entire campus that can be used for any and all strategic priorities.

• EAB is the only organisation that combines cutting-edge best practice research, implementation support, and consultative services at a fixed rate and without limitations. EAB partnerships provide unlimited access to and utilisation of these services, eliminating costs beyond the annual partnership fee or single project. EAB is uniquely positioned to achieve such economies of scale as a result of the vast resources and expertise at its disposal. Typical vendors charge based on the number of projects or time spent with the University. Because of EAB's unlimited model it provides a scale of economies for partners not possible with any other vendor.
• In addition to global best practices, EAB also provides custom market insights research projects on demand for our partners. EAB's has a proprietary partnership with a real-time labour database that allows for unlimited analysis for employer demands down to the skills level to help inform curricular design. This is then combined with student demand data as well as a robust competitive curriculum review to provide detailed and

comprehensive market intelligence reports fully customised to the individual partner needs. No other vendor to our knowledge has the ability to combine global best practice research with custom market intelligence reports.

• EAB has the largest global network of Universities across the world providing the opportunity to have a truly global perspective to ensure partners have access to the best solutions and innovations from anywhere in the world. This also enables networking and formal partnerships not available through traditional partners.

Publisher note: This is a VEAT notice to show our intention to award a public services contract using the Negotiated Procedure without prior publication (Regulation 32 (2) (b) (iii)). A subsequent award notice will be published in due course. It is the intention of the University pursuant to its obligations under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, that a contract for services will be awarded to the stated provider on the basis that: - the University and EAB UK, LLC have both agreed the contract terms, and - the successful completion of the 10 days Standstill period.

• EAB UK, LLCAwarded supplierGB-COH: FC036956 2445 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, Washington DC, US
• EAB UK, LLCAwarded supplier 2445 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20037, Washington DC, US

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