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title: "Design and Build of the Cardiff Metropolitan University Website"
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# Design and Build of the Cardiff Metropolitan University Website

Buyer: HEAD OF PROCUREMENT  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03d3db

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## Summary

The Cardiff Metropolitan University has awarded a contract to Terminalfour for the design and build of the University's new website. The University aims to launch the website in summer 2023 with a budget of around £365,000. The procurement process involved a two-stage Restricted procedure with a closing date for the Selection Questionnaire on 24th June 2022. The buying organization, the University, is located in Cardiff and operates within the services industry category.

This tender for the design and build of the website offers business growth opportunities for web designers, CMS suppliers, and organizations providing content management software development services. Companies with expertise in web design, building, hosting, and maintenance are well-suited to compete. The procurement stage has reached the award phase, and the University has selected Terminalfour as the supplier for this project. Businesses in the ICT sector focused on web services and content management software could find this contract particularly relevant for expansion.

## Notice

The University wishes to appoint an organisation to design, build, host and maintain the University's new web site. We are flexible in our approach and welcome bids from suppliers that are either web designers and would build the site from an open-source CMS and provide design and hosting, or CMS suppliers that would provide the whole solution from the CMS and the design, build to hosting. We aim to launch the new website in summer 2023 and have an estimated budget of circa 365,000.00 GBP inc. vat for the entire project.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

The University wishes to appoint a supplier to build the entire Cardiff Metropolitan University website. We are seeking a partner that is as passionate about achieving our goals as we are and want to build a strong and flexible working relationship between the service provider and our in-house teams to implement the web build and content strategy together. The current website runs on Microsoft 2013 and has been in place since 2009. The site has had numerous changes over a 10-year period, consists of over 2000 indexed pages, multiple content editors across the university who create and maintain pages on the website. The site is now outdated and needs replacing and updating. The new website replacement project will include 3 major work streams, 1 New wireframe and design 2 CMS website build hosting and maintenance 3 Content project including a content strategy plan. The University is looking to award to a bidder that will provide work for streams 1 and 2 with close collaboration on workstream 3. The procurement will follow a two stage Restricted process, the first stage is pre-qualification using the Selection Questionnaire (SQ). The SQ is available on the University's etender portal Intend https://in-tendhost.co.uk/cardiffmet/aspx/Home The closing date and time for return of the completed SQ is 12 noon on the 24th June 2022. It is envisaged that tender documentation will be issued to those suppliers who successfully pre-qualify (5 suppliers) week commencing 4th July 2022. To access the SQ please register on the Intend etender site, which is free of charge and simply requires some standard contact details. As soon as login details and password are created please login. Select Tenders, Current, the project is the Design and Build of the University's Website, View Details, Express an Interest and the SQ document is in the Selection Stage tab of the project. You may then view the SQ or download. Please return a completed SQ by uploading the document to the site and selecting Submit return by the date and time.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/015931-2023 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Selective |
| Procurement method details | Restricted procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 6 Jun 2023 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 1 May 2023 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £380,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | HEAD OF PROCUREMENT |
| Locality | CARDIFF |
| Post town | Cardiff |
| Postcode | CF5 2YB |
| Country | Wales |
| ITL 1 | TLL Wales |
| ITL 2 | TLL5 South East Wales |
| ITL 3 | TLL52 Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan |
| Local authority | Cardiff |
| Electoral ward | Llandaff |
| Westminster constituency | Cardiff West |
| Delivery location | TLL22 Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | TERMINALFOUR SOLUTIONS |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 48 - Software package and information systems
- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

### Codes

- 48780000 - System, storage and content management software package
- 72212783 - Content management software development services
- 72413000 - World wide web (www) site design services
- 72415000 - World wide web (www) site operation host services

## Release History

- 6 Jun 2023 at 09:38 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/015931-2023

## Notice URLs

- http://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/procurement/
- https://in-tendhost.co.uk/cardiffmet/aspx/Home
- https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:121500-2022:TEXT:EN:HTML
- https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0259

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