Stale Pre-tender

260158 Contract for the Provision of a Research Intelligence Tool

Details

Buyer: Queen's University Belfast
Value: £900,000
Topic: Software package and information systems
Published: 20 August 2026
Submission: 10 July 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

Queen’s University Belfast requires a Research Intelligence Tool to support institutional research and innovation strategy, planning, and evaluation. The tool will enable benchmarking of research performance, identification of emerging research strengths, monitoring of collaboration and partnership activity, and support planning for research assessment exercises and strategic planning across Faculties and Schools. Queen’s will develop requirements based on institutional needs, including functional fit, data quality, usability, interoperability, alignment with research culture and responsible metrics principles, and value for money. Key users will include academic staff, Faculty Deans of Research, Research Strategy & Policy Team, Research Development, Global Research Partnerships, Business Alliance, Library (Open Research), Global Marketing and Reputation, and the Research Intelligence Team.

Timeline

Completed: Pre-tender published20 August 2026
Current notice

About the buyer

Queen's University Belfast is a higher education institution that runs its procurement through the Finance Directorate's procurement team. Suppliers register on the university's own e-tendering site to view and respond to current tenders. An accepted expression of interest opens the "my tenders" area, where full tender documents sit for registered suppliers. A Supply Chain Code of Conduct, tied to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, applies to every supplier. Contracts above the advertising threshold follow the Procurement Act 2023 and its regulations, in force since February 2025. The procurement team takes supplier and contract queries directly by email.

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

Over the past 5 years, most of Queen's University Belfast's contract awards have been in laboratory and precision equipment, industrial machinery and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

48000000 · Software package and information systems
48610000 · Database systems
72222300 · Information technology services
72320000 · Database services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@queen-s-university-belfast.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@queen-s-university-belfast.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@queen-s-university-belfast.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@queen-s-university-belfast.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@queen-s-university-belfast.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@queen-s-university-belfast.gov