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title: "How can tech help us understand how our school buildings are used, and help support asset performance, wellbeing and sustainability?"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-02bb73"
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buyer: "SCOTTISH FUTURES TRUST LIMITED"
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# How can tech help us understand how our school buildings are used, and help support asset performance, wellbeing and sustainability?

Buyer: SCOTTISH FUTURES TRUST LIMITED  
Current stage: Tender  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-02bb73

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## Summary

The Scottish Futures Trust Limited is currently conducting a tender titled "How can tech help us understand how our school buildings are used, and help support asset performance, wellbeing and sustainability?" This procurement falls within the IT services industry and is based in the UK. The tender process is at the active stage, with an extended deadline for submissions now set for 12 July 2021. The total estimated value of this contract is £250,000, and it follows an open procurement method, allowing various suppliers to participate.

This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses specialising in technology, particularly those focused on data analysis, environmental services, and building management solutions. Suitable participants may include IT consultancy firms, software developers, and companies involved in innovative environmental technologies. Engaging in this tender could enhance business growth by allowing organisations to showcase their expertise in optimising educational building performance, ultimately contributing to improved pupil wellbeing and sustainable asset management.

## Notice

We currently do not fully understand how the physical spaces in schools and educational buildings are utilised beyond timetabling and term-time considerations, and without full understanding, effective planning and management is not possible. This has the potential to detrimentally impact many aspects of the building's performance - for example in terms of air quality, which if not optimal has the potential to spread diseases such as Covid 19. However if we could understand how our educational buildings are being used, we could make informed decisions on how we plan, invest in, and utilise them to best effect. So we want to gain an understanding about how people travel through buildings, and how they occupy rooms, spaces and external facilities, and in doing so realise a number of benefits including increased pupil wellbeing, identifying new capacities within buildings for growth and expansion, and improving the learning environment through data driven building management decisions. So how can tech help us understand how our school buildings are used, and help support asset performance, wellbeing and sustainability? Please visit our website for information on CivTech and how to get involved https://www.civtechalliance.org/

### Lot Information

Lot 1

About CivTech CivTech's mission is to drive daring and innovation in the public sector by collaboratively solving Challenges that make people's lives better - and in doing so create generations of sustainable, high growth businesses. CivTech brings together public sector expertise and private sector innovation to solve real problems, develop new products, and deliver better, faster and easier services for everyone. Central to the approach is co-production with the citizen. Part of the Scottish Government's Digital Directorate, CivTech's approach is helping transform public sector engagement with tech and innovation, delivering significant benefits to public services, producing genuine uplifts for the Scottish economy - and along the way, making lives better. Across the country there are problems public sector organisations would like to solve and in the current environment the need for smart, efficient and effective products has never been greater. The Scottish Government is aware innovation is a good way to create them and is committed to ensuring a large part of its tech spend goes to smaller, innovative businesses. This is where CivTech comes in. The CivTech Innovation Flow is designed to create products as quickly and effectively as possible, and uses a true Accelerator model at the heart of its Innovation Flow model. For you - whether you're an individual, team or company - it's an opportunity to take on a Challenge, solve it, and win contracts with a blue-chip public sector organisation. You'll build a product, and a business to take it as far as possible. Because here's the kicker: the Challenges we issue aren't 'single organisation' problems - most exist worldwide. In short: Open Challenges are set. Any organisation, team or individual can respond. Applications are assessed, and shortlisted proposals go into an Exploration Stage where they're developed further [for which participating applicants are paid]. The best go through to the Accelerator - a period of intensive work to create the solution, and through CivTech's unique business workshop system, a business capable of taking the product to the world. Please visit our website for information on CivTech and how to get involved https://www.civtechalliance.org/

Renewal: Potential extensions to complete work and/or milestones

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/013312-2021 |
| Notice type | Tender Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Tender |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 27 Jul 2021 |
| Submission deadline | 9 Jul 2021 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £250,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Active |
| Lots status | Active |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | SCOTTISH FUTURES TRUST LIMITED |
| Locality | EDINBURGH |
| Post town | Edinburgh |
| Postcode | EH2 1DF |
| Country | Scotland |
| ITL 1 | TLM Scotland |
| ITL 2 | TLM1 East Central Scotland |
| ITL 3 | TLM13 City of Edinburgh |
| Local authority | City of Edinburgh |
| Electoral ward | City Centre |
| Westminster constituency | Edinburgh North and Leith |
| Delivery location | TLM Scotland |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 30 - Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages
- 38 - Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)
- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- 90 - Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services

### Codes

- 30237475 - Electric sensors
- 38551000 - Energy meters
- 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- 90700000 - Environmental services
- 90731100 - Air quality management

## Release History

- 27 Jul 2021 at 17:14 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/013312-2021
- 8 Jul 2021 at 14:45 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/015940-2021

## Notice URLs

- http://www.scottishfuturestrust.org.uk
- https://www.civtechalliance.org/
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=656593
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA13383
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx

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