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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

The Provision of an Engagement Monitoring Software Solution

Software & IT SystemsCPV 48000000
Value£810k
Awarded6 Mar 2023
Published30 May 2023
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£810ktotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£1.1m

This is a large award for Software & IT Systems — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 30,286 valued Software & IT Systems tenders in our corpus.

The brief

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 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.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The University would like to be able

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.

02

The new academic engagement policy requires sponsors

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:.

03

The monitoring needs to be simple

The monitoring needs to be simple for students to use and give visibility to the student of academic engagement information being collected.

04

The university needs to be able collect

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.

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151a70b0-995f-4ea0-ae23-bcc6f7f67108
Stage
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2022UoS-0646
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