Stale Pre-tender

Preliminary Market Engagement for Device Capabilities at USW

Details

Value
£1,200,000
Topic
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Published
11 December 2025
Submission
16 January 2026

Tender description

The university has made significant progress towards a Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) solution, utilising Microsoft Intune. Macs are out of scope as they are not yet managed by Intune, however this scope could change in future years as Microsoft's technology updates. We run a corporately managed windows devices, along with BYOD for Android and iPhones. We would be looking to move into managed corporate Androids and iOS using Intune. The university is going through a significant phase of our digital strategy that requires significant growth in Application Streaming mixed with Desktop as a Service (DaaS). We need to grow our capabilities and are looking for suppliers to help us with this maturity. We also have an interest in utilising Chromebooks in the future and would want to ensure these are linked into Intune and the compliance configuration. We enforce "Compliant devices" within a subset of our users for Cyber Essentials, however, plan to move the entire staff base over to this configuration within the next few years. Please find a link to the portal below for access to the preliminary market engagement questionnaire. https://etenderwales.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/go/82528870019B0D927823 We are keen to receive information on the following capabilities: a) Intune: Endpoint management b) Application: Management / Packaging c) Virtualisation: Application Streaming / DaaS / VDI Please specify in the answer to the first question which of these capabilities you cover, we welcome submissions for a single one of these capabilities. Please indicate in all your answers which capabilities are being covered. Labelling answers as appropriate: (a) Intune, (b) application, (c) virtualisation, (d) all

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published11 December 2025
    Current notice

About the buyer

University of South Wales is a higher education institution, buying through a dedicated team in its Finance department in Pontypridd. Contract notices and awards are published on Sell2Wales, the procurement portal for Welsh public bodies. Lower-value notices below the EU thresholds go out through eTenderwales. Larger requirements are let as framework call-offs, covering library systems and campus facilities. The university buys collaboratively through the Higher Education Purchasing Consortium Wales, alongside universities across Wales. The Welsh HE Shared Services Project extends this collaboration across the wider sector. Suppliers can register interest directly with the procurement team.

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

Over the past 5 years, most of University of South Wales's contract awards have been in business services, construction work and education and training.

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  • 72000000 · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

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