Notice Information
Notice Title
Provision of Safeguarding Product and Services for Glow
Notice Description
To enhance the existing safety and security of Glow, Education Scotland has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the creation and ongoing support of a bespoke safeguarding product and services to function within Scotland's national digital learning platform known as Glow.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Education Scotland wishes to further strengthen the safety and security of Scotland's national digital learning platform known as Glow and has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the creation and ongoing support of a bespoke safeguarding product and service to function within Glow. Glow offers a number of different services to support learning across the curriculum. The safeguarding product and service will be used to monitor and alert on the activity, interaction and behaviour of users within this environment. The Glow environment's core components are Office 365, G Suite and WordPress. The Glow environment is accessed via corporate and personal devices, as such the product should have the capability to monitor these environments and not be device specific (not require software to be loaded on the users' endpoint) Education Scotland would welcome an initial proposal for the creation and ongoing support of a safeguarding product and service including but not limited to the following capabilities within the Office 365, G Suite and WordPress environment: Live keyword search Image recognition Metadata search Child safeguarding Reporting Alerting. 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) 2015.
Renewal: Two separate options to extend for a further 12 months.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000573509
- Publication Source
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Latest Notice
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=DEC402043
- 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
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
-
- CPV Codes
72212730 - Security software development services
72222300 - Information technology services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £841,250 £500K-£1M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 10 Dec 20205 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 25 Mar 2019Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 1 Dec 20205 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
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- EDUCATION SCOTLAND
- Contact Name
- Stephen Phillips
- Contact Email
- stephen.phillips@gov.scot
- Contact Phone
- +44 1412420131
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LIVINGSTON
- Postcode
- EH54 6GA
- Post Town
- Edinburgh
- 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
-
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=FEB346164&idx=1
22nd February 2019 - European Single Procurement Document -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=FEB346164
Provision of Safeguarding Product and Services for Glow - To enhance the existing safety and security of Glow, Education Scotland has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the creation and ongoing support of a bespoke safeguarding product and services to function within Scotland's national digital learning platform known as Glow. -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=DEC402043
Provision of Safeguarding Product and Services for Glow - To enhance the existing safety and security of Glow, Education Scotland has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the creation and ongoing support of a bespoke safeguarding product and services to function within Scotland's national digital learning platform known as Glow.
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