Information Management and Learning Services

Tender description

Working on behalf of the Department for Education (DfE), Government Procurement Service aims to establish framework agreements, in support of government educational strategies and policies, to enable educational institutions or a range of procurement authorities or their agents, to obtain specialist quality-assured educational ICT goods and services. This framework agreement follows on from the Becta ICT services framework let last year and subsequently assigned to DfE ownership (contract notice 2010/S 43-063793) which started the process. This new framework agreement will provide customers with the option to obtain the services detailed below: 1 Information management – services which will incorporate the ICT service managed provision of core elements of a management information system (MIS), either as a single MIS product/service or multiple elements combined to provide the core components in one integrated solution. There will be particular emphasis in ensuring that these services can share specific information with (at a minimum) the learning platform services they provide; 2 Learning Services - this will cover the ICT service managed provision and integration of core components of learning platforms, either as a single learning platform product/service or multiple elements combined to provide the core omponents in one integrated solution. There will be particular emphasis on ensuring that these services can share specific information with the management information system (MIS) in operation at the learning establishment (e.g. school, college, CLC, library). Using their specialist educational knowledge, the Department for Education will be responsible for specifying technical principles and functional requirements in relation to these services. Government Procurement Service reserves the right for an electronic auction to be held during further competition among the parties to the Framework Agreement(s).