Provision of software development and associated activities
A Contract Award Notice
by OPEN UNIVERSITY(THE)
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Type
- Contract (Services)
- Duration
- not specified
- Value
- £450K
- Sector
- TECHNOLOGY
- Published
- 14 Feb 2025
- Delivery
- not specified
- Deadline
- n/a
Concepts
Location
Milton Keynes:
1 buyer
- Open University Milton Keynes
1 supplier
- Qubit Labs Tallinn
Description
The Open University (OU) has appointed a supplier to provide software development and associated activities, to support the CORE OU project.
Total Quantity or Scope
Service development capacity, in the form of software development and associated activities, to support the CORE project: CORE hosts the world's largest collection of open access research outputs, which are used and referenced by people globally, including researchers, libraries, software developers, funders.
Award Detail
| 1 | Qubit Labs (Tallinn)
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Award Criteria
| price | _ |
CPV Codes
- 72200000 - Software programming and consultancy services
Legal Justification
The Open University (OU) has awarded a one (1) year agreement to Qubit Labs to provide software development and associated activities, to support the CORE OU project. The CORE code base contains more than 250k lines of code. Qubit personnel have the required training, expertise and specialist knowledge to operate and develop the CORE infrastructure The cost and time to upskill another company to the level required precludes the award of the contract to a company other than Qubit.
Other Information
** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. **
Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-047332
- FTS 005140-2025