Electronic data management (EDM)

Tender description

The University of Leicester wishes to engage publications and research data management system suppliers and developers (from commercial providers, academic institutions, non-commercial organisations etc.) with previous experience within the Higher Education Sector, to develop a repository platform/service to enable our research community to comply with funder, publishers, and institutional requirements and drivers around open access and discoverability of research outputs (both publications and research data). The solution should integrate components to ingest, store, publish, disseminate, preserve and report on final research outputs. The final product should include a repository with a user interface to be used by researchers to deposit, publish and discover both publications and data. The solution offered must be SAAS/ Cloud based, as the University does not have the capacity or resources to support an on-prem solution. A Competitive dialogue with be entered into with shortlisted suppliers, an indicative timeline of the tender process can be found within the published tender documentation.