Awarded contract

GROWCO - GROW COVENTRY UNIVERSITY ONLINE

Details

Supplier(s)
Cintana Education LLC
Value
£139,477.88
Duration
15 years
Topic
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Published
18 August 2025

Tender description

This ITT will enable the development of this capability via a collaboration with external expertise in ODL education growth. The services Supplier collaboration intends to accelerate the offering from Coventry University Online Limited in the UK and internationally. As such we want to work with a services Supplier that has a proven core competence in the ODL market, specifically with a Supplier that has a team with a proven track record for scaling successful market-leading online ventures domestically and internationally. The Supplier and Coventry University will work together to establish and manage a new Coventry owned operating unit (known as "GrowCo - Grow Coventry University Online"). The fundamental purpose and rationale for the Coventry University 'GrowCo' initiative is to significantly grow, exploit, disrupt and serve the ODL market. Today, the legal business entity Coventry University Online Ltd (CUOL), has lost expertise in a number of business development areas which has severely affected business growth. GrowCo will: - 1. Be a new unit established as a division of Coventry University Online (CUOL) with its own P&L and operate independently for greater speed-to-market and accountability. 2. House dedicated capabilities including marketing, digital marketing, enrolment and admissions, student support and human and technological resources to support these areas. 3, Integrate and coordinate with departments and technologies of Coventry University. 4. Design and implement go-to-market strategies. The Agreement will be awarded for a duration of 3 months for a Joint Programme Initiative plus a 10 years initial contract agreement, with an option for Coventry University, at its discretion, to elect to extend the term of the Agreement for one further 5 year period. For the avoidance of doubt, the term of the Agreement shall not exceed a maximum of 3 months plus 15 years. Tender documents are available at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/coventryuniversity/aspx/Home. This is the same URL to respond to the Tender.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date25 September 2024
  2. Completed: Award published18 August 2025
    Current notice
  3. Next: Contract expiry date26 September 2039

About the buyer

Coventry University buys as a higher education institution, with a centralised procurement team based in its Finance Department at the Armstrong Siddeley Building. Suppliers must complete a competitive tender process before they gain approved status. Coventry University belongs to the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium, a collaborative buying group for more than one hundred higher and further education institutions.

Further competitions run on the framework agreements the consortium negotiates across most commodity areas.

Over the past 5 years, most of Coventry University's contract awards have been in software and information systems, business services and IT services.

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