Prior information notice
This notice is for prior information only
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Wrexham County Borough Council
Commissioning Procurement and Contract Management Unit, Lampbit Street
Wrexham
LL11 1AR
UK
Contact person: Rachel Glynn
Telephone: +44 1978292792
E-mail: rachel.glynn@wrexham.gov.uk
NUTS: UKL23
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.wrexham.gov.uk
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0264
I.1) Name and addresses
Flintshire County Council
County Hall, Mold
Flintshire
CH7 6NA
UK
Telephone: +44 1352701814
E-mail: procurement@denbighshire.gov.uk
NUTS: UKL23
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.flintshire.gov.uk
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0419
I.1) Name and addresses
Denbighshire County Council
Wynnstay Road
Ruthin
LL15 1YN
UK
Telephone: +44 1824712612
E-mail: procurement@denbighshire.gov.uk
NUTS: UKL13
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.denbighshire.gov.uk
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0280
I.1) Name and addresses
Conwy County Borough Council
Bodlondeb, Bangor Road
Conwy
LL32 8DU
UK
Telephone: +44 1492574000
E-mail: procurement@conwy.gov.uk
NUTS: UKL13
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.conwy.gov.uk
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0389
I.1) Name and addresses
Isle of Anglesey County Council
Isle of Anglesey County Council, Council Offices, Llangefni
Anglesey.
LL77 7TW
UK
Telephone: +44 1248750057
E-mail: procurement@anglesey.gov.uk
NUTS: UKL11
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.anglesey.gov.uk
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0369
I.1) Name and addresses
Cyngor Gwynedd Council
Uned Caffael / Procurement Unit, Swyddfeydd y Cyngor, Stryd y Jel / Council Offices, Shirehall Street
Caernarfon
LL55 1SH
UK
Telephone: +44 1286679787
E-mail: caffael@gwynedd.llyw.cymru
NUTS: UKL12
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.gwynedd.llyw.cymru
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0361
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract involves joint procurement
I.3) Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local authority
I.5) Main activity
Other: ICT
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
The North Wales Regional Education MIS Solution
Reference number: Proc-20-133
II.1.2) Main CPV code
72212190
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The North Wales Regional MIS group, acting on behalf of the 6 North Wales Local Education Authorities, are seeking to engage with the market for a regional Education MIS solution. The regional group comprises of Wrexham, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Conwy, Ynys Môn and Gwynedd local Education Authorities.
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
900 000.00
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
48000000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKL23
Main site or place of performance:
This solution will cover the 6 North Wales Local Authotities which are:- Wrexham, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Conwy, Ynys Môn and Gwynedd
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The North Wales Children and Young People (CYP) MIS Consortium provide management information systems support to Wrexham, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Conwy, Ynys Môn and Gwynedd council’s in providing services to children and young people. We are looking to engage the market for a software solution
II.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice:
01/04/2022
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
The North Wales Regional MIS group, acting on behalf of the 6 North Wales Local Education Authorities, are seeking to engage with the market for a regional Education MIS solution. The regional group comprises of Wrexham, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Conwy, Ynys Môn and Gwynedd local Education Authorities.
We are looking to engage the market for a software solution that would meet the following requirements:
Software requirements
Record information relating to Children, Young People and Parent/Carers including:-
- Admissions
- Attendance
- Attainment
- Early years
- Exclusions
- Free schools meals
- School/childcare establishments
- Transport
- Supports integration or import of data from existing council and LA software systems particularly necessary for the purpose of inter authority Admission files
- Is cloud hosted
- Supports Integration or import / export of data from and to the LA's schools MIS, namely ESS SIMS
- Ability to integrate securely with each individual authorities ‘customer account’ using Single Sign on Solution for customers such as SAML or oAUTH.
- Integrates with Sharepoint
- The ability to archive and delete for GDPR /Full compliance with GDPR requirements
- Portal facility for parents/guardians to apply for school places, transport and FSM/Uniforms
- Portal facility with schools (already detailed but also need it for reporting and dashboard functionality)
- GIS Functionality of distance calculations within Mapping solution – for walking, driving and direct distances for Admissions and Transport calculations and ability to annually update/refresh maps
- Ability to adapt portal to each LA’s specifications and branding requirements for seamless transition from LA public website to the application portals for Admissions, Transport and FSM – English and Welsh requirements.
Additional learning needs
- Ability for each authority to retain their own dataset but to be hosted together
- Access to the system from various platforms in all six authorities
- Ability to automatically transfer pupil data including attendance from Schools MIS Systems
- Ability to automatically transfer pupil data to schools MIS System
- Ability to identify conflicts in data between schools and LEA
- Portal facility for parent/carers to apply for School places and Transport and amend their details.
- Portal for schools/childcare providers to view data relating to their pupils
- The facility to record multiple services providing support/interventions to young people.
- Link to an appropriate mapping solution to view locations and routes on maps
Within the software the following functionality is also required:
- Fully bilingual
- Accessible from a range of devices
- Send alerts/emails to users
- Facility for users to generate reports
- Send emails/alerts to portal users
- Full auditing facility
- Import data in a range of formats
- Export data in a range of formats
- Automatically calculate distances using GIS
- Automatically rank pupils in order of eligibility criteria for school places
- Link seamlessly with other systems e.g. Social care systems if required
- Test and Live environments
- Automatically rank pupils by a range predetermined criteria
- Ability to customise/adapt portal to each Authorities own specification
- Ability to restrict grant access to data on a granular level
- Import bilingual address files and validate addresses
Please can you send an overview of your solution to Rachel Glynn, ICT Category Manager to the following email address: - rachel.glynn@wrexham.gov.uk
Can responses be sent by Monday 26th July 2021
(WA Ref:112048)
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
05/07/2021