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Anglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation

T24/22_Dynamic Purchasing System for Provision of Private Student Residential Accommodation

Community ServicesCPV 98341000
Value£8.0m
Deadline18 Feb 2028
Published19 Feb 2025
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 19 Feb 2025540 days leftCloses 18 Feb 2028
Who to contact
procurement@aru.ac.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£8.0mtotal contract value
median £134k
this tender£0£8.6m

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The brief

ARU is establishing the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to provide ARU with a compliant procurement route for the provision of private student residential accommodation to new ARU students.

The DPS will provide one or multiple suitable buildings to ARU in order to fulfil our accommodation needs.

When the DPS is established, ARU will be able to search for Potential Providers that match their requirements using: service category, room type and price and any other criteria deemed necessary and available within the standard search criteria.

ARU will invite all Potential Providers admitted to the DPS to bid for the specific contract, via a call for further competition (mini-competition) but may impose further conditions which exclude some Potential Providers from a specific competition.

The DPS will be open for a period of 3 years and applications to the DPS may be made at any time during this period.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

ARU is establishing the Dynamic Purchasing System

ARU is establishing the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to provide ARU with a compliant procurement route for the provision of private student residential accommodation to new ARU students.

02

The DPS will provide one or multiple

The DPS will provide one or multiple suitable buildings to ARU in order to fulfil our accommodation needs.

03

When the DPS is established, ARU

When the DPS is established, ARU will be able to search for Potential Providers that match their requirements using: service category, room type and price and any other criteria deemed necessary and available within the standard search criteria.

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.

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market
ARU is establishing the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to provide ARU with a compliant procurement route for the provision of private student residential accommodation to new ARU students.

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.

What it takes to bid this

2540 daysof bid-team effort
£17.1k£27.4kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £1m–£10m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
tender · Open
Source
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Buyer ref
005980-2025
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