--- title: "Soft Market Testing Exercise for the Provision of an Attendance Monitoring Software Solution" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-03620f" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-03620f" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03620f.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03620f.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON" published: "2022-08-23" --- # Soft Market Testing Exercise for the Provision of an Attendance Monitoring Software Solution Buyer: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03620f [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-03620f) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03620f.json) ## Summary The University of Southampton is conducting a soft market testing exercise for the provision of an attendance monitoring software solution. The tender, titled "Soft Market Testing Exercise for the Provision of an Attendance Monitoring Software Solution", falls under the goods procurement category within the software package and information systems industry sector. The University is located in Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom, and the procurement stage is currently planned. Interested parties have until 12:00 (Noon) on 27th September 2022 to submit completed questionnaires and requests to attend a Soft Market Testing event. This tender by the University of Southampton offers business growth opportunities for companies engaged in providing attendance monitoring solutions. Businesses in the software development and information systems sectors would be well-suited to compete. By participating in this soft market testing exercise, companies can showcase their solutions and potentially shape the University's final requirements. The University's aim is to implement the chosen technological solution by September 2023/24, initially for sponsored students with plans to scale it for all students by Semester 1 of 2023/24. ## Notice The University of Southampton wishes to explore a range of options to meet its need for the provision of an attendance monitoring solution through a soft market testing exercise. The University is keen to explore technology options that may be available in the marketplace and interested parties are invited to complete a questionnaire and attend a Soft Market Testing event. Further details, including the University's high-level requirements, can be found at Section II.2.4. ### Lot Information Lot 1 The University of Southampton wishes to explore a range of options to meet its need for the provision of an attendance monitoring solution through a soft market testing exercise. The University would like to be able to monitor the academic engagement of students, whilst partaking in academic activities on campus, off campus or academic activities whilst working online. Monitoring academic engagement has also been introduced as part of the new immigration system on 5 October 2020 by the Home Office (UKVI). The new academic engagement policy requires sponsors (University of Southampton) to ensure that all sponsored students are academically engaged for the entirety of their course, including activities they consider would indicate academic engagement such as: * Attending required lectures, seminars, or tutorials * Undertaking required laboratory work * Undertaking research or fieldwork * Submitting essays, assignments and attending examinations The University currently has a number of systems and processes in place for the purposes of monitoring attendance of sponsored students. The University records student engagement through BlackBoard, Eduroam, log on to university workstations, entry access (including Library), PGR Tracker, use of printers, eAssignment and remote study log entries, access to the MySouthampton App and logins to SUSSED. These show electronic and on campus activity, but do not include data on exam, tutorial, seminar, lecture, and practical class attendance. The monitoring needs to be simple for students to use and give visibility to the student of academic engagement information being collected. The university needs to be able collect the data required, use appropriate technology and to be able to report on the data quickly and efficiently. Our plan is to have the appropriate, technological solution in place for September 2023/24, in the first instance for sponsored students and then scale the solution for all students during Semester 1 2023/24. The University is keen to explore all options that may be available in the marketplace and interested parties are invited to complete and return a questionnaire and attend a Soft Market Testing event to demonstrate an end to end system walk through from both the student and visa team perspective. The deadline for the receipt of completed questionnaires and requests to attend a Soft Market Testing event is 12:00 (Noon) 27th September 2022. Information received as part of this soft market testing exercise shall be used to help shape the University's final specification of requirements and scope any resulting procurement process. Please Note: The University is conducting this soft market testing exercise to allow interested parties, with appropriate experience, to outline their views and provide impartial information to the University with no commitment to themselves or the University. This is not a call for competition at this stage. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/023463-2022 | | Notice type | Planning Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Goods | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | Not specified | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 23 Aug 2022 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 30 Nov 2022 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £500,000 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planned | | Lots status | Planned | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON | | Locality | SOUTHAMPTON | | Post town | Southampton | | Postcode | SO17 1BJ | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLJ South East (England) | | ITL 2 | TLJ3 Hampshire and Isle of Wight | | ITL 3 | TLJ32 Southampton | | Local authority | Southampton | | Electoral ward | Portswood | | Westminster constituency | Southampton Test | | Delivery location | TLJ32 Southampton | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 31 - Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting - 48 - Software package and information systems ### Codes - 31711310 - System for recording attendance - 48000000 - Software package and information systems ## Release History - 23 Aug 2022 at 12:16 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/023463-2022 ## Notice URLs - https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofsouthampton - https://in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofsouthampton/aspx/Home - https://www.southampton.ac.uk/ ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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