Awarded contract

Short Courses Platform

Details

Value
£1,974,874
Topic
Software supply services
Published
21 December 2023

Tender description

Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) for delivery of short courses (non-credited) including a course catalogue and payment integration. The University of Edinburgh is establishing a short courses platform that will provide a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) for the delivery of short courses (non-credited) including a course catalogue with the functionality to list all short courses offered by the University and payment integration. This contract is awarded for an initial period of 33 months, with an additional 84 months extension available.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date5 December 2023
  2. Completed: Award published21 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

  • 72268000 · Software supply services

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