Awarded contract

University Wiki and Development Tools

Details

Supplier(s)
Academia Ltd
Value
£190,020
Topic
Software package and information systems
Published
5 December 2023

Tender description

The Software that is being provided on an on-premises basis is: - Atlassian Confluence Data Center addition and associated add-ins; - Atlassian Jira Software Data Center and associated add-ins; - Atlassian Crowd Data Center; and - Atlassian Bamboo Data Center. Confluence The Wiki is a long-established service that has been a core part of the University’s IT infrastructure for over a decade. An implementation of Atlassian’s well known Confluence Server, it has provided a stable and reliable place for people to quickly and easily create, collaborate and share information and documentation online, both internally and externally. Jira Jira is an industry standard bug tracking and software development tool used to track and deliver IT projects across the University. Designed to support Software Development methodologies, Jira is primarily used by Information Services but is also used other development teams across the University. Bamboo Bamboo is an automated Software Deployment platform used by Information Services to deploy new releases to several centrally provided IT Services Crowd Crowd is a User Management platform that is required to provision and manage user’s access to Atlassian products, such as Jira and Confluence. This is a requirement for organisations with a userbase as large as the University of Edinburgh.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date4 December 2023
  2. Completed: Award published5 December 2023
    Current notice

About the buyer

University of Edinburgh buys as a higher education institution, through its own Procurement function. Larger tenders are advertised on Public Contract Scotland, via the PCS-T e-tendering platform. Suppliers must register separately on both systems before bidding. Much of this procurement flows through framework agreements with APUC, Scotland Excel and the Crown Commercial Service. Prior information notices invite market engagement from suppliers ahead of larger tenders. The Strategic Procurement team leads regulated sourcing, while Operational Procurement manages day-to-day purchase orders. A Procurement Support team handles reporting, data analysis and training across the function.

Education procurement reached £47.4bn in 2024/25, the fourth-largest public sector budget.

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Edinburgh's contract awards have been in laboratory and precision equipment, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and software and information systems.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 48000000 · Software package and information systems

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