Data Acquisition Unit and Software and Content Packs Subscription

A Contract Award Notice
by UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

Source: Find a Tender
Type: Contract (Supply)
Duration: not specified
Value: £757K

Sector: TECHNOLOGY
Published: 25 May 2022
Delivery: not specified
Deadline: n/a

Concepts

Location

Edinburgh Medical School, Central Campus, The University of Edinburgh

Geochart for 2 buyers and 1 suppliers

2 buyers

Edinburgh University Edinburgh

1 supplier

Adinstruments Oxford

Description

Medical data acquisition unit and various medical research and teaching software packages.

Total Quantity or Scope

Medical research and medical teaching data acquisition hardware and teaching and research software packages. These are used to train students registered on the MBChB programme (Medicine) across all 6 years as well as Biomedical students across 4 years. The software includes access to various content packs: Biology, Anatomy, Physiology, etc., (SaaS) and is used for research by medical and biomedical students; it will also be used in research-led teaching of these students.

Award Detail

1	Adinstruments (Oxford) Reference: nca30990 Num offers: 1 Value: £757,310 Contractor is an SME.

Award Criteria

Fitness for purpose to achieve research and teaching and learning outcomes	70.0
Whole life Cost	30.0

CPV Codes

48100000 - Industry specific software package
39162110 - Teaching supplies
48000000 - Software package and information systems

Indicators

Award on basis of price and quality.

Legal Justification

The purchase is for high quality scientific hardware for teaching, linked with a cloud-based learning platform. The platform is populated with high quality, ready to use teaching content. Importantly, where the content does not match what we currently teach, or is absent, we have full editorial rights so can add or edit as required. Therefore, we can enhance the quality and quantity of the practical experiences our student cohort currently benefits from in the lab – and away from it. This is the only company that currently offers a cloud-based, GDPR compliant, learning platform with this combination of features. This purchase is in fact a follow-on subscription; there is no practical alternative to this platform and even if there were, given the University’s investment in developing the content, the switching costs would be prohibitive.