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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Graduation - Gowning Services

Clothing & TextilesCPV 18000000
Value£3.0m
Awarded21 Dec 2021
Published9 Mar 2022
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£3.0mtotal contract value
median £263k
this tender£0£9.4m

This is a large award for Clothing & Footwear — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 1,446 valued Clothing & Footwear tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Student Engagement department sits within the Student Services Directorate at the University of Southampton.

The team is responsible for ensuring students feel a sense of belonging to the University.

This is achieved through various activities including events, and in June 2021 the team became responsible for graduation ceremonies.

The University seeks to establish a collaborative relationship with an innovative supplier to store, maintain, and supply ceremonial gowns as required for graduation ceremonies.

The successful supplier must be able to respond in an agile and flexible way to the University's evolving requirements and should possess sufficient and demonstrable understanding of and expertise in this area.

This Further Competition is being carried out under the LUPC Framework Agreement for Ceremonial Gown and Photography Services (JAN5043 LU). **This notice is published in accordance with transparency requirements and relates to an awarded contract**

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The team is responsible for ensuring students

The team is responsible for ensuring students feel a sense of belonging to the University.

02

This is achieved through various activities including

This is achieved through various activities including events, and in June 2021 the team became responsible for graduation ceremonies.

03

The successful supplier must be able

The successful supplier must be able to respond in an agile and flexible way to the University's evolving requirements and should possess sufficient and demonstrable understanding of and expertise in this area.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Framework agreement (any)Frameworks & routes to market
This Further Competition is being carried out under the LUPC Framework Agreement for Ceremonial Gown and Photography Services (JAN5043 LU).

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
OCID
2533d898-8565-401f-873d-31d237cfed3d
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
2021UoS-0357
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