Software package and information systems

Tender description

The University of Bristol (UoB) has approved a business case to procure an award management system to manage research (and research-related) grant costings. The University of Bristol has approved a business case to procure an award management system to manage research (and research-related) grant costings. The main objective of the procurement is to deliver a solution which: — produces fEC/TRAC compliant costs and prices, — associates multiple costings with a research project, — cost and prices complex research projects involving multiple internal organisational structures, funders and external collaborators, — has scheme templates for major funders provided as standard by the supplier, — has the capability for the UoB to create scheme templates for other funders, — has a dashboard with milestone information relating to the progress of research applications, — integrates with the UoB ERP system for staff costings and project set up, — integrates with the Case Management System for providing milestone information to the academic community, — has the capability to configure, review and approval workflows, — has the provision of funder specific submission reports for funder portals, — records award acceptance information, — generates standard and customised reports, for workflow tasks and approvals, and for application and award data, — exchanges data analytics with management information tools, such as Business Objects. Full details of the required functionality are provided in the statement of requirements.