RFP QuestBeta
Awarded · ResultStage · award

University of South Wales

USW - Provision of Maintenance and Support for Quercus

Business ServicesCPV 48190000
Value£186k
Awarded
Published24 Jul 2025
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded
Surecampus Ltd
Awarded value£186k

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

Who to contact
Gemma Selway
gemma.selway@southwales.ac.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£186ktotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£1.1m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Software & IT Systems band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 30,286 valued Software & IT Systems tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The University of South Wales intends to award a contract directly for the provision of ongoing support, maintenance, and additional technical work related to the Quercus software system.

As the original developer and implementer of the Quercus system, which is currently in operational use, the supplier holds unique technical knowledge and detailed understanding of the software's architecture, configuration, and integration with internal systems.

This knowledge is essential to the continued reliable operation, support, and enhancement of the system.

The intended contract includes additional works that form a natural extension of the original implementation and which cannot be carried out by another supplier without significant risk of disruption, inefficiency, or duplication of effort.

Due to the technical complexity and system-specific knowledge required, no alternative supplier is known to be capable of delivering these services to the required standard.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

As the original developer and implementer

As the original developer and implementer of the Quercus system, which is currently in operational use, the supplier holds unique technical knowledge and detailed understanding of the software's architecture, configuration, and integration with internal systems.

02

This knowledge is essential to the continued

This knowledge is essential to the continued reliable operation, support, and enhancement of the system.

03

Due to the technical complexity and system-specific

Due to the technical complexity and system-specific knowledge required, no alternative supplier is known to be capable of delivering these services to the required standard.

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.

Buyer intelligence

Make the case to bid

Reveal who to approach at University of South Wales, and generate a go-to-market strategy from their news, accounts and people.

Sign up free to unlock buyer intelligence

Free to start. Named contacts come from published notices; the strategy is generated from the buyer’s news, accounts and people.

Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05659e
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
042851-2025
View the original notice on Find a Tender

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

Market context

Who wins this kind of work

The suppliers and buyers around this opportunity — drawn from official award data. Drag to orbit; click a node to explore.

Top suppliers & buyers in Software & IT Systems

This view needs WebGL, which this browser has turned off.

University of South Wales’s tender network

This view needs WebGL, which this browser has turned off.
Also open now

Similar open tenders

Paradigm Trust - provision of HR & MIS system & Payroll Services

Paradigm Trust

Closes 5 Oct 2026Business Services
£830kValue

CivTech 12.5 - How can technology support multi agency processes for the protection of children in Scotland?

Scottish Government

Closes 20 Oct 2026IT Services
£650kValue