Educational software package

Tender description

The University of the West of England are looking to contract with a provider of an integrated software streaming platform to deliver virtual applications to devices on and off campus via a portal. The requirement is to deliver virtualised applications to workstations managed by the university and personal devices on and off campus. A large proportion of the University's current software holdings must be able to be virtualised and delivered via a unique web portal. The portal will have the ability to launch applications that are installed local by the University's inhouse team. The portal must be able to display only those applications that users are authorised or licensed to run. In order to comply with the licencing requirements it must have the ability to determine whether the workstation is on or off campus and if the workstation is managed by the university or personally owned by the user. Applications must be able to be restricted down to the individual user or workstation. Users must not require local administrator rights in order to launch the service or applications. Management of application assignment to users and workstations must be via Active Directory groups and users must have a single sign on enabled for their active directory user codes. The service must be scalable to nearly 28 000 users. The service should be capable of providing reporting for both usage of applications and license consumption. Applications must be delivered only to hardware that can support them, so hardware inventory and analysis must be available. The service must run on existing equipment and infrastructure and must enable deployment of current versions of software.