Short Courses & Microcredentials

Tender description

Courses are already run several times per year with significant worldwide interest. The FutureLearn Platform provides a strong vehicle for delivery of these courses to a worldwide audience providing strong promotion of the University of Aberdeen. Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the Official Journal of the European Union Justification for selected award procedure: The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason: absence of competition for technical reasons Explanation Under Regulation 33 (1) (b) (ii) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, a contracting authority may use the negotiated procedure without the prior publication in the case of a public contract, based on the following justification: A contracting authority may award a public contract following negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice or prior information notice in any of the following cases— (b) where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons— (ii) competition is absent for technical reasons; Provision of courses which run several times per year with significant interest worldwide. The FutureLearn Platform provides a strong vehicle for delivery of these courses to a worldwide audience providing strong promotion of the University of Aberdeen. In particular, these short courses serve as valuable ‘tasters’ to encourage learners to progress onto further study with the University.