Award

Scottish Housing Options eLearning toolkit material design and hosting

NORTH LANARKSHIRE COUNCIL

This public procurement record has 2 releases in its history.

Award

19 Dec 2018 at 00:00

Tender

26 Feb 2018 at 00:00

Summary of the contracting process

The North Lanarkshire Council is currently overseeing a procurement process for the "Scottish Housing Options eLearning toolkit material design and hosting." This contract falls within the services industry category and is set to support homelessness prevention efforts across Scotland. The final deadline for submissions was 6 April 2018, with the tender process having commenced earlier in the year. Under a selective procurement method termed 'Competitive procedure with negotiation', this initiative is aimed at producing bespoke training materials for various partners involved in housing options.

This opportunity presents significant potential for businesses that specialise in e-learning solutions, content design, and training development. Companies with experience in creating web-based platforms, particularly those capable of providing tailored training content for governmental or local authority clients, will find this tender particularly suitable. Additionally, firms that can demonstrate a strong understanding of the Scottish housing sector and its training requirements will be well-positioned to compete and contribute to transformative learning initiatives across the region.

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Notice Title

Scottish Housing Options eLearning toolkit material design and hosting

Notice Description

Homelessness prevention has been a major aspect of the Scottish housing agenda for over a decade. . Scottish Housing Options Regional Hubs, across Scotland are seeking to develop a range of support materials in the form of a 'Housing Options Training Toolkit'. It is intended that this toolkit provides a range of transformational bespoke materials to support internal training delivery by HUB partners, e-learning materials or facilitated training courses as part of a tailored approach to staff development. . Housing Options addresses six areas, which will each form discrete module deliverables, in this contract. . Cloud delivery by browser would make this accessible resource across Scotland.

Lot Information

Lot 1

The Supplier shall be required to design and build a web-based E-Learning Platform to host and facilitate access to learning by licensees across the Partnership. An initial supply of 6,000 user/learner licenses shall be provided, with the facility to purchase additional licenses in blocks of no less than 1,000 licenses at an agreed cost. Where licensing is based on concurrent user/learners, the expectation is that the maximum user/learners on at any one time could be 50 user/learners or less. . In order to maximise (i) ease of access from a user perspective and also (ii) ease of update from a development perspective; the toolkit materials require to be made available in a web-based learning solution, which enables training content to be made available on a module by module basis. The web-based solution must be capable of hosting 3 types of content material: - trainer led materials for classroom style events; - e-learning materials; and - reference/information resources . Based on the training methodologies recommended, it is anticipated that classroom style events could be delivered locally (at local authority level and potentially in-house) or at a regional (Hub) level by a pool of accredited training providers. To this end, to enable users to access opportunities to host or attend events on a flexible basis; it would be desirable that the web-based solution delivers a calendar facility to enable Partners to access the programme of activity taking place across the country. This could include users, or partners such as staff from the NHS or other related organisations. . A substantial body of materials has been assembled by the Authority from the Partnership and will be made available to the Supplier. It is intended that this material will provide the initial content to populate the selected learning solution. It is hoped that these materials will apply an initial level of consistency and quality in building toolkit content. . A robust process was followed to ensure materials submitted could be assigned specifically to identified modules and learning outcomes. The materials submitted will clearly inform the content for each of the identified topics / modules. Whilst this process has been thorough, there still remains a priority 'design' element to ensure the toolkit delivers to agreed and consistent standards. This design process will involve taking the existing materials and 'rebranding', giving all materials the same style and feel. This is essential to the success of the training toolkit due to the cultural changes that staff / practitioners will experience as part of the housing options ethos. . To assist with the procurement of the Supplier the agreed modules and learning outcomes have been reviewed and the most effective training methodologies will be outlined within the full specification. There are a number of key assumptions that we have made to take into consideration when reviewing the proposed delivery methods for the toolkit. . As an additional option, it is envisaged that the lead supplier will partner with a resource capable of designing classroom sessions, within the six strands of Housing Options. Delivery is expected to be a mixture of in-house and optional lead supplier provided. A daily rate costing shall be agreed within available budgets and must be clearly stated within the costing sheet, for classroom delivery.. PLEASE BE AWARE OF THE EXCLUSION GROUNDS: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

Renewal: The Authority requires the option to extend for a further two (2) twelve (12) month periods to maintain the same partnership and provide continuity for the project.

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-r6ebe6-0000501430
Publication Source
Public Contracts Scotland
Latest Notice
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=DEC340692
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Tender, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Selective
Procurement Method Details
Competitive procedure with negotiation
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

48 - Software package and information systems

80 - Education and training services


CPV Codes

48000000 - Software package and information systems

80420000 - E-learning services

80533200 - Computer courses

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
£400,000 £100K-£500K
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
£400,300 £100K-£500K

Notice Dates

Publication Date
19 Dec 20187 years ago
Submission Deadline
6 Apr 2018Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
17 Dec 20187 years ago
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Complete
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Active

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
NORTH LANARKSHIRE COUNCIL
Contact Name
Julie Hunter
Contact Email
hunterju@northlan.gov.uk
Contact Phone
+44 1698274141

Buyer Location

Locality
MOTHERWELL
Postcode
ML1 1AB
Post Town
Motherwell
Country
Scotland

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLM Scotland
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLM3 West Central Scotland
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLM34 North Lanarkshire
Delivery Location
TLM84 North Lanarkshire

Local Authority
North Lanarkshire
Electoral Ward
Motherwell South East and Ravenscraig
Westminster Constituency
Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

AURION LEARNING

Further Information

Notice Documents

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    Scottish Housing Options eLearning toolkit material design and hosting - Homelessness prevention has been a major aspect of the Scottish housing agenda for over a decade. . Scottish Housing Options Regional Hubs, across Scotland are seeking to develop a range of support materials in the form of a 'Housing Options Training Toolkit'. It is intended that this toolkit provides a range of transformational bespoke materials to support internal training delivery by HUB partners, e-learning materials or facilitated training courses as part of a tailored approach to staff development. . Housing Options addresses six areas, which will each form discrete module deliverables, in this contract. . Cloud delivery by browser would make this accessible resource across Scotland.
  • https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=DEC340692
    Scottish Housing Options eLearning toolkit material design and hosting - Homelessness prevention has been a major aspect of the Scottish housing agenda for over a decade. . Scottish Housing Options Regional Hubs, across Scotland are seeking to develop a range of support materials in the form of a 'Housing Options Training Toolkit'. It is intended that this toolkit provides a range of transformational bespoke materials to support internal training delivery by HUB partners, e-learning materials or facilitated training courses as part of a tailored approach to staff development. . Housing Options addresses six areas, which will each form discrete module deliverables, in this contract. . Cloud delivery by browser would make this accessible resource across Scotland.

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