Research and development services and related consultancy services

Tender description

Jisc Services Limited wishes to engage research data management system suppliers and developers to develop a shared service to enable HEI's to meet core UK funder policy compliance around research outputs, focused on research data, with the aim of providing a solution that integrates components to: ingest, store, publish, disseminate, preserve and report on finalised research objects. This service developed in this first stage of procurement will assess the benefits and business case for a future sustainable service for UK HEIs. Jisc Services Limited envisages that the service will utilise and benefit from using open standards, in order to allow and encourage interoperability above that available in existing products. This part of the tender can include enhancements to existing products as well as the development of new tools where existing products do not exist. Jisc Services Limited wishes to develop this service in partnership with a small number of pilot HEI's and suppliers would be expected to work in collaboration with these institutions and respond to their requirements and those of their researchers. The final product would include a repository with a user interface to be used by researchers to deposit, publish and discover data. It is expected that researchers from pilot HEI's would be involved in scoping and designing their requirements for the user interface as well as being engaged in testing the system. Lot Information: Lot 1 — Research Data Repositories. Lot 2 — Repository Interfaces. Lot 3 — Research Data Exchange Interface. Lot 4 — Research Information and Administration. Systems Integrations Lot 5 — Research Data Preservation Platforms. Lot 6 — Research Data Preservation Tools. Development Lot 7 — Research Data Reporting. Lot 8 — User Experience Enhancements.