Notice Information
Notice Title
Glow Authentication and Portal Services
Notice Description
The provision of authentication and portal services for Scottish Education (currently branded as Glow).
Lot Information
Lot 1
The Scottish Ministers acting through Education Scotland has awarded a contract to deliver a cloud based software as a service (SaaS) authentication and portal service for Scottish Education, currently branded as Glow. The Service Provider will also manage the administration of the Online Productivity Suite(s) within Glow and provide a service desk across all Glow Services. The Service will be available for up to 2 million users within the Scottish Education Sector, including early years establishments and schools under local authority control; other educational establishments e.g. independent schools; colleges; universities involved in teacher training; and national agencies. The Services are available to learners, educators, other staff and in the future, potentially parents. The high level requirements are: -An authentication service to give users access to the portal service and a number of other applications and services through a single username and password. This will include the integration and management of user account provisioning directly from SEEMiS for local authority users and other account provisioning options for non-local authority users. -A portal service that includes a management console, a customisable launchpad and an application library. -Tenancy Management and administration of the Glow Online Productivity Suites e.g. Microsoft Office 365 and Google G Suite for Education. -Provision of a service desk which will offer a single point of contact for customer support.
Renewal: Following the expiry of the Initial Term, the Purchaser may extend the period of the Contract for additional extension periods with each extension period being not be for less than six months in duration; and the total duration of the extension periods shall not exceed a period of five years from the expiry of the Initial Term
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000462901
- Publication Source
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Latest Notice
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=SEP296091
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
48 - Software package and information systems
-
- CPV Codes
48000000 - Software package and information systems
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £9,000,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £9,000,000 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 19 Sep 20178 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 3 Feb 2017Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 12 Sep 20178 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Approximately 09-18 months prior to the end of the Term of the subsequently awarded contract
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- EDUCATION SCOTLAND
- Contact Name
- Kirsty Howaniec, Procurement Department
- Contact Email
- edsprocurement@educationscotland.gsi.gov.uk, kirsty.howaniec@gov.scot
- Contact Phone
- +44 1312445748, +44 1412420130
Buyer Location
- Locality
- GLASGOW
- Postcode
- G20 0LA
- Post Town
- Glasgow
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM1 East Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM14 West Lothian
- Delivery Location
- TLM Scotland
-
- Local Authority
- West Lothian
- Electoral Ward
- Livingston South
- Westminster Constituency
- Livingston
Further Information
Notice Documents
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https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=DEC268215&idx=10
27th January 2017 - Details the revised procurement timetable due to the change in tender response deadline -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=DEC268215&idx=9
17th January 2017 - Details of the questions and answers from the Tenderer's Briefing Meeting on 16 Jan 2017. -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=DEC268215&idx=8
17th January 2017 - Presentation from Tenderers Briefing Meeting on Monday 16th January 2017 -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=DEC268215&idx=7
5th January 2017 - Details answers to the questions received via Public Contracts Scotland on 04 January 2017 at 15:45 -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=DEC268215&idx=1
28th December 2016 - Cover letter, Instructions to tenderers and Evaluation Guide and Award Criteria -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=DEC268215&idx=2
28th December 2016 - Form of Tender - FOR COMPLETION BY TENDERER -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=DEC268215&idx=3
28th December 2016 - Technical Response Document - FOR COMPLETION BY TENDERER -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=DEC268215&idx=4
28th December 2016 - Commercial Response Document - FOR COMPLETION BY TENDERER -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=DEC268215&idx=5
28th December 2016 - GAPS - Invitation to Tender (Model Contract and all Schedules) -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=DEC268215&idx=6
28th December 2016 - EPSD - FOR COMPLETION BY TENDERERS -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=DEC268215
Glow Authentication and Portal Services - The provision of authentication and portal services for Scottish Education (currently branded as Glow). -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=SEP296091
Glow Authentication and Portal Services - The provision of authentication and portal services for Scottish Education (currently branded as Glow).
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