Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Welsh Government
Corporate Procurement Services, Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NQ
UK
Contact person: Karen Roberts
Telephone: +44 3000623300
E-mail: ICTProcurement@gov.wales
NUTS: UKL
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://wales.gov.uk/?skip=1&lang=en
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0007
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
General public services
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Hwb Education Digital Learning Platform
Reference number: C223/2019/2020
II.1.2) Main CPV code
72212190
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Hwb, the digital learning platform for Wales, provides its users with a single point of access to a range of centrally-funded, bilingual, digital tools and resources. It is the Welsh Government’s strategic digital channel to support the delivery of the curriculum in Wales by providing education stakeholders with a centralised platform enabling easy access to relevant digital content and tools.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
3 300 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
30211300
80420000
48190000
48000000
72000000
72416000
72261000
72421000
48931000
72212190
72212931
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKL
Main site or place of performance:
Government Buildings
Cathays Park
Cardiff
CF10 3NQ
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Welsh Government is committed to delivering a national approach to digital services, enabling maintained schools in Wales to consistently exploit the transformational benefits which digital and technology can have on education.
Hwb, the digital learning platform for Wales, provides its users with a single point of access to a range of centrally-funded, bilingual, digital tools and resources. It is the Welsh Government’s strategic digital channel to support the delivery of the curriculum in Wales by providing education stakeholders with a centralised platform enabling easy access to relevant digital content and tools.
Hwb enables its users to access online tools and resources anywhere, at any time and from a range of web-enabled devices. It also provides tools to help education practitioners create and share their own resources and assignments.
Hwb’s collection of tools and resources includes:
- tools and resources created or commissioned by the Welsh Government and/or its agents;
- tools and resources licensed or bought by the Welsh Government;
- tools and resources made available by “trusted sources”; and
- resources created by education practitioners.
To put some context around the scale of the platform there are in the region of 550,000 potential users of the platform and 98% of schools in Wales are regularly classed as ‘actively engaged’. The average logins per month during term time is over 1M users and page views are in the region of 3.5M per month.
In addition to the Hwb platform, this procurement exercise includes the Welsh Government’s internal learning and development platform – Learning Lab, and the Academi Wales web platform which are both currently built on the same technology stack as Hwb.
Please note – the estimated total value includes an optional annual 50% development cost. The contract value for the core requirements of the tender is 3,375,000 GBP. If further developments are required to the platform over the course of the contract, they will be agreed between the supplier and the Welsh Government and paid for out of the additional 50 % allocation.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Technical Proposal
/ Weighting: 70
Price
/ Weighting:
30
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
II.2.14) Additional information
This procurement will be an open procedure and is being led by the Welsh Government.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2020/S 129-318062
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: C223/2019/2020
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
08/12/2020
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 2
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 1
Number of tenders received from tenderers from EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 2
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
CDSM Interactive Solutions Ltd
4th floor, Alexandra House, 1 Alexandra Road
Swansea
SA15ED
UK
Telephone: +44 1792463865
NUTS: UKL22
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 3 300 000.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
This procurement will be an open procedure and is being led by the Welsh Government to appoint a single supplier.
Welsh Government intend to use eTenderWales to administer the procurement. All communications will be sent via eTenderWales.
NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales;
etenderwales reference[s] project_44852, itt_82026
Hwb Digital Learning Platform C223/2019/2020
(WA Ref:106802)
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
High Court
Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand
London
WC2A 2LL
UK
Telephone: +44 2079477501
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
18/12/2020