Single Party Framework Agreement for the development, delivery and maintenance of a University Skills Passport solution to the University of Galway.

Tender description

University of Galway propose to award an initial contract for the development, delivery and maintenance of a “University Skills Passport” bespoke solution to record student’s skills achievement in a curricular and extracurricular context within the University’s Quercus Student Record System (SRS), incorporating a design that will be compatible with a future Banner SRS. The initiative is part of the Designing Futures project (€7.5M HEA funded HCI Pillar 3 project – Overarching timeline 2020 - 2024). The USP - University Skills Passport will represent a full and formal acknowledgement of the University's student’s skills development, spanning curricular and co/extra-curricular achievement and engagement. The proposed systems solution should be able to full fill University of Galway’s requirements as follows: • Classify curricular and co/extracurricular activities with reference to the Designing Futures Skills Framework • Record and publish co/extra-curricular activities on a central system and publish these opportunities to the student body. • Record student’s skills achievement in a curricular and co/extracurricular context with reference to the student record on the Quercus Database. • Include an application interface to enable to the student to discover opportunities to develop skills and to review and reflect on their own achievements with respect to skills development. • Generate an output, titled “USP – University skills passport” to be issued to the student upon graduation alongside their degree parchment and academic transcript. This USP and digital badge credentials will be triggered via API interface between Quercus, Digitary and a digital badging solution. A full list of requirements is contained within the tender documents. Tenderers must associate themselves with this competition to access tender documents, ask and receive clarifications and submit tender responses. All submissions must be in a ZIP-FILE format. University of Galway propose to award an initial contract for the development, delivery and maintenance of a “University Skills Passport” bespoke solution to record student’s skills achievement in a curricular and extracurricular context within the University’s Quercus Student Record System (SRS), incorporating a design that will be compatible with a future Banner SRS. The initiative is part of the Designing Futures project (€7.5M HEA funded HCI Pillar 3 project – Overarching timeline 2020 - 2024). The USP - University Skills Passport will represent a full and formal acknowledgement of the University's student’s skills development, spanning curricular and co/extra-curricular achievement and engagement. The proposed systems solution should be able to full fill University of Galway’s requirements as follows: • Classify curricular and co/extracurricular activities with reference to the Designing Futures Skills Framework • Record and publish co/extra-curricular activities on a central system and publish these opportunities to the student body. • Record student’s skills achievement in a curricular and co/extracurricular context with reference to the student record on the Quercus Database. • Include an application interface to enable to the student to discover opportunities to develop skills and to review and reflect on their own achievements with respect to skills development. • Generate an output, titled “USP – University skills passport” to be issued to the student upon graduation alongside their degree parchment and academic transcript. This USP and digital badge credentials will be triggered via API interface between Quercus, Digitary and a digital badging solution. A full list of requirements is contained within the tender documents. Tenderers must associate themselves with this competition to access tender documents, ask and receive clarifications and submit tender responses. All submissions must be in a ZIP-FILE format.