Research Management Software (Worktribe)

Concepts

• miscellaneous software
• bristol
• software package
• research management
• contracts management
• research activity
• document management
• higher education research
• management
• the entire research project lifecycle

Location

Bristol

Description

Worktribe is a market leading software-as-service research management platform for research management. The suite provides a range of capabilities in use by the institution The Research Management has been developed from the ground up to help academics and administrators manage research activity from initial project conception to bid preparation, approval, submission and post-award. The functionality includes; Costing and pricing, Document management, Approvals workflow, Ethics and peer reviews, Contracts management, Structured assessment and management of benefits and risks. These modules provide a cloud-based software platform for higher education research across the entire research project lifecycle.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 48900000 - Miscellaneous software package and computer systems

Indicators

Legal Justification

An end-to-end research lifecycle management consisting of the following: research pre-award, post-award and contracts products. UWE receives external funding to carry out academic research projects, a proportion of this is won through competitive bids to funders, through charities, government bodies and industrial organisations. The process of submitting applications to funders, the receipt of award funding, tracking of the award through its lifecycle and invoicing of expenditure against the award is then carried out mainly by nominated staff. The management overhead on staff across the university in application and awards management is very large, and the need for communication and collaboration within the university is critical. In order to improve and streamline these processes as much as possible UWE has explored the market for Research Awards Management systems. These are systems that assist with "end-to-end" management of the awards process, from bid development through to project closure. This is a 5 year contract extension. Since first procuring Worktribe the University has made a substantial investment in terms of integrations into the rest of the technical estate, working processes and staff training.