University of Leeds has published this notice through Delta eSourcing
| Notice Summary |
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| Title: | Supply and Installation of a Planning & Forecasting System Solution |
| Notice type: | Prior Information Notice |
| Authority: | University of Leeds |
| Nature of contract: | Not applicable |
| Procedure: | Not applicable |
| Short Description: | |
| Published: | 15/11/2017 11:56 |
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Preliminary Questions
This notice is for prior information only: Yes
This notice aims at reducing time-limits for receipt of tenders: No
This notice is a call for competition: No
Section I: Contracting Authority
I.1) Name and addresses:
University of Leeds
Purchasing Office, 1 - 3 Lifton Villas, Lifton Place, Leeds, LS2 9JZ, United Kingdom
Tel. +44 1133434104, Email: d.mclaren@leeds.ac.uk
Contact: David McLaren
Main Address: www.leeds.ac.uk, Address of the buyer profile: https://neupc.delta-esourcing.com/
NUTS Code: UKE42
Specifications and additional documents: As Above
I.2) Joint procurement:
The contract involves joint procurement: No.
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body: No .
I.3) Communication
Further information can be obtained from: the above mentioned address
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity:
Education
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement - 1
II.1.1) Title: Supply and Installation of a Planning & Forecasting System Solution
Reference number:
II.1.2) Common Procurement Vocabulary:
48000000 - Software package and information systems.
II.1.3) Type of contract: SERVICES
II.1.4) Short description:
The University of Leeds (UoL) aims to support its strategic objective to deliver streamlined, agile and responsive processes, systems and services by procuring & implementing a Solution that will enable the institution to better understand, scrutinize and challenge the deliverability of research and student number plans, improve tracking and forecasting against strategic ambitions in the areas of research funding and student recruitment, and better inform timely strategic decision making in response to the data.
II.1.5) Estimated total value: Not Provided
II.1.6) Information about lots:
This contract is divided into lots: No
Maximum number of lots that may be awarded to one tenderer: Not Provided
The contracting authority reserves the right to award contracts combining the following lots or groups of lots: Not Provided
II.2) Lot Description
II.2.3) Place of performance:
Region Codes:
UKE42 - Leeds
II.2.4) Description of the procurement:
The University of Leeds (UoL) aims to support its strategic objective to deliver streamlined, agile and responsive processes, systems and services by procuring & implementing a Solution that will enable the institution to better understand, scrutinize and challenge the deliverability of research and student number plans, improve tracking and forecasting against strategic ambitions in the areas of research funding and student recruitment, and better inform timely strategic decision making in response to the data.
II.2.14) Additional information
Not Provided
II.3) Estimated Date of publication
02/01/2018
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA )
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) - NO
Section VI: Complementary Information
VI.3) Additional Information:
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VI.5) Date Of Dispatch Of This Notice: 15/11/2017
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Section I: Contracting authority/entity (as stated in the original notice)
I.1) Name and addresses
University of Leeds
Purchasing Office, 1 - 3 Lifton Villas, Lifton Place, Leeds, LS2 9JZ, United Kingdom
Tel. +44 1133434104, Email: d.mclaren@leeds.ac.uk
Contact: David McLaren
Main Address: www.leeds.ac.uk, Address of the buyer profile: https://neupc.delta-esourcing.com/
NUTS Code: UKE42
Section II: Object (as stated in the original notice)
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title: Supply and Installation of a Planning & Forecasting System Solution Reference number: Not Provided
II.1.2) Main CPV code:
48000000 - Software package and information systems.
II.1.3) Type of contract: SERVICES
II.1.4) Short Description: The University of Leeds (UoL) aims to support its strategic objective to deliver streamlined, agile and responsive processes, systems and services by procuring & implementing a Solution that will enable the institution to better understand, scrutinize and challenge the deliverability of research and student number plans, improve tracking and forecasting against strategic ambitions in the areas of research funding and student recruitment, and better inform timely strategic decision making in response to the data.
Section VI: Complementary information
V1.5) Date of dispatch of this notice: 15/11/2017
VI.6) Original notice reference:
Notice Reference: 2017 - 214401
Notice number in OJ S: Not Provided
Date of dispatch of the original notice: 15/11/2017
Section VII: Changes
VII.1) Information to be changed or added
VII.1.1) Reason for change: Modification of original information submitted by the contracting authority
VII.1.2) Text to be corrected in original notice No: 1
Section Number: II.2.4
Lot No: Not provided
Place of text to be modified: II.2.4
Instead of: The University of Leeds (UoL) aims to support its strategic objective to deliver streamlined, agile and responsive processes, systems and services by procuring & implementing a Solution that will enable the institution to better understand, scrutinize and challenge the deliverability of research and student number plans, improve tracking and forecasting against strategic ambitions in the areas of research funding and student recruitment, and better inform timely strategic decision making in response to the data.
Read: The University of Leeds (UoL) aims to support its strategic objective to deliver streamlined, agile and responsive processes, systems and services by procuring & implementing a Solution that will enable the institution to better understand, scrutinize and challenge the deliverability of research and student number plans, improve tracking and forecasting against strategic ambitions in the areas of research funding and student recruitment, and better inform timely strategic decision making in response to the data.
The Planning & Forecasting Solution should be able to support:
-Student number and fee income planning, forecasting and reporting
-Research grant income and recoveries planning, forecasting and reporting
-Income & Expenditure consolidation and financial reporting
-Potential for future extension into resource planning, financial planning and resource allocation.
The above activities are currently manual, inefficient, they lack transparency and are unable to flexibly respond to the challenges of the Higher Education environment.
We expect the Planning & Forecasting Solution to integrate with the existing UoL systems via API’s/web services in order to be able to extract various types of data sets as well as being able to import/export data with external sources (i.e. UCAS, HESA, demographics, etc) via spreadsheets and flat files. It should be able to plan at a lowest level of data providing bottom-up and top-down planning capability, rapid aggregation and drill-down functionality. It should support target setting, scenario planning, flexible modelling and forecasting at different levels. It should also allow in-cycle and real-time changes/impact visibility, workflow management and historical view for audit purposes.
It is expected the Planning & Forecasting Solution will be used by a large number of users across multi-site locations and it should support simultaneous entries with a user-friendly interface. In view of the uncertainty within the HE environment we would expect to see changes in the planning and reporting on student loads and fees, therefore this Solution should provide enough flexibility to deal with new income models over time and offer opportunity for further enhancements.
In that regard the University will be holding a ‘Supplier Event’, to undertake market engagement based on the development of the requirements up to the release of the OJEU Contract Notice. To help the UoL to plan this event, we request organisations wishing to participate in the ‘Supplier Event’ to notify us by e-mailing d.mclaren@leeds.ac.uk for event details. A call to competition will be made by means of a Contract Notice. Participation or non-participation in the Supplier Day will in no way effect the outcome of any future formal procurement process.
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