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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?"
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current_stage: "Tender"
buyer: "SCOTTISH FUTURES TRUST LIMITED"
published: "2021-07-08"
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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-r6ebe6-0000656593

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## Summary

The procurement process is initiated by the Scottish Futures Trust Limited, located at 1st Floor, 11-15 Thistle Street, Edinburgh, UK, seeking solutions on how technology can enhance the understanding of school building usage to support asset performance, wellbeing, and sustainability. This tender, titled "How can tech help us understand how our school buildings are used, and help support asset performance, wellbeing and sustainability?", falls under the services industry category, currently in the Tender stage. The deadline for submissions is extended to noon on 12 July 2021, following a system maintenance notice affecting the electronic submission process, with a contract value of £250,000. The procurement method is open, allowing broad participation in this opportunity.

This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses, especially those specialising in technology solutions, data analytics, or facilities management. Suppliers that can demonstrate innovative approaches to understanding building usage, improving air quality, and promoting wellbeing in educational environments would be well-suited to compete. The process encourages collaboration and aims to harness smaller, innovative businesses to drive effective solutions, thus creating a platform for growth and potential future contracts in this evolving sector.

## 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 | Public Contracts Scotland |
| Latest notice | https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=JUL420695 |
| Notice type | OJEU - F14 - Corrigendum |
| 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 | 8 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

- 8 Jul 2021 at 00:00 - TenderUpdate - OJEU - F14 - Corrigendum - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=JUL420695
- 14 Jun 2021 at 00:00 - Tender - OJEU - F2 - Contract Notice - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=JUN418192

## Documents

- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=JUN418192&idx=9
  27th June 2021 - Summary of Q&A session
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=JUN418192&idx=6
  14th June 2021 - Exploration Terms and Conditions
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=JUN418192&idx=7
  14th June 2021 - Instructions for Submitting Proposals
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=JUN418192&idx=8
  14th June 2021 - Mandatory Exclusion Form
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=JUN418192&idx=1
  14th June 2021 - advert Information
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=JUN418192&idx=2
  14th June 2021 - Guidance Note for Terms and Conditions
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=JUN418192&idx=3
  14th June 2021 - Scorecard
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=JUN418192&idx=4
  14th June 2021 - Application Form
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=JUN418192&idx=5
  14th June 2021 - Accelerator Terms and Conditions
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=JUN418192
  How can tech help us understand how our school buildings are used, and help support asset performance, wellbeing and sustainability? - 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/

## Notice URLs

- http://
- http://www.scottishfuturestrust.org.uk
- https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id=ocds-r6ebe6-0000656593
- 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/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx
- https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/the-courts/court-locations/edinburgh-sheriff-court-and-justice-of-the-peace-court

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