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Newcastle University Developments, Campus for Ageing and Vitality – Later Living Development Background The University and Newcastle University Developments Ltd acquired 27 acres of the 29-acre site in April 2019 and since then have arrived at a clear Vision with accompanying objectives as to what they want to achieve on the Campus for Ageing & Vitality (CAV), Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6BE. Our vision for the Campus for Ageing and Vitality (CAV) is to facilitate the construction of the UK’s first “health innovation neighbourhood“. It will be a future focused area combining the best of research, innovation, accommodation, employment into a sustainable community and create something truly unique in helping people to live longer and healthier lives. The “Later Living” development forms an integral part of this vision and we are looking to identify a suitable purchaser which has the means and objective to develop up to 150 Later Living homes on up to 4 acres of the site. We will be looking for purchase proposals from buyers capable of developing homes made up of a variety of Later Living products, and tenures, covering the entire spectrum of independence. They should promote independent living for people in later life (starting age range 55-70 including inter-generational living). Later Living will complement the work of our principal Development partner, Genr8Kajima Ltd which is presently drafting plans to create a mixed use urban development encompassing academic, residential and commercial uses within the health innovation neighbourhood. Scope The University has ring-fenced up to 4 acres of the site for a Later Living development and wishes to sell this parcel of the site to a Later Living purchaser who intends to develop/operate the scheme; conditional upon the quality of their design proposals planning application and commitment to meeting the Universities overall objectives for CAV. In addition, the University would like to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the successful Later Living purchaser, whereby the purchaser will support the University in its research programme by facilitating introductions to its residents. It is currently expected that the successful purchaser will take possession of the land following capital receipt transfer in early 2025.

Contract Award to Global Payments

Market Engagement Notice (MEN) Newcastle University requires a CCTV Management System platform capable of meeting the following high-level requirements as outlined in the 'Additional Details' section below. The purpose of the project is to replace the existing obsolete CCTV Management System platform that has been operating an unsupported version of the application on an unsupported operating system (Windows Vista).The existing system also uses bulky and mechanical recorders without any back-up facility, which means a catastrophic failure can mean no feedback can be obtained. This MEN is designed to alert the market to our future intent to tender for this requirement and to give prospective bidders the opportunity to identify and implement a new system that (i) is compatible with existing cameras (ii) can handle the volume of cameras in our estates with provision of required storage and backup capacity (iii) has either been successfully implemented within another UK research-intensive Higher Education Institution or an educational establishment of equivalent size and scale. The CCTV Management System Platform will be installed and used across the Newcastle campus (including satellite as well as accommodation sites); we expect one solution to be provided to cater for all users. Suppliers that demonstrate they can meet our requirements may be invited to present virtually or in person at the University. Test accounts for independent investigation / testing of system functionality may also be requested. The contract reference is NU/1981. The deadline for expressing an interest is 21st December 2023 at 2pm GMT. To do so, please email Ola Smith at ola.smith@newcastle.ac.uk. Please note that Newcastle University is not a 'contracting authority' for the purposes of the UK Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016, this will not apply to this Market Engagement Notice or any subsequent tender activity as an outcome of this engagement. Additional information: 1. Support and Scalability Ability to accommodate new cameras, analogue or digital (preferred), in the future. 2. Compliance Support compliance with GDPR 3. Storage and back up Ability to store in cloud first, support resilience, network connectivity locations and bandwidth balancing across the network, access to real-time, high-quality video. The system should be capable of handling storage and back up for 630 cameras out of which around 122 are analogue, static and PTZ. 4. Security and Reporting Ability for the system operational functions to be controlled and managed by a System Management Platform (SMP). Provide system audit and manage data reports regarding the operational effectiveness of the systems, events, and status. 5. Integration Support a variety of integrations with all systems linked to the control room. This may include Intercom, fire detection, third party I/O, Access control and Alarms. 6. Maintenance Management Ability to track and maintain asset location as well as complete asset details. Enable prediction of potential issues and scheduling of regular maintenance tasks to eliminate them. 7. Operation and Transmission Ability for all CCTV cameras of various models (analogue and digital) to operate easily, at full frame rate and image quality. Transmit and/ or receive data using networking systems, such as switches, routers, firewalls, cables, or WLAN. Notification system for alerts.

Newcastle University requires an employee survey platform capable of meeting the following high-level requirements. The ability to/for: 1. Run unlimited long form surveys (60+ questions) as well as Pulse Surveys 2. Issue surveys via a hyperlink which can be embedded into an e-mail communication 3. Create a range of question categories such as multiple choice, rating scale, and open ended 4. Create surveys using logic / routing 5. Create surveys by using custom themes, logos and NU colour palette 6. Run a sentiment analysis or an equivalent thematic analysis of qualitative data 7. Configure role-based dashboards for quantitative data 8. Compare and contrast historical data over a period of time 9. Export formatting including HTML, MS Office, XML, CSV, PDF 10. Provide admin user training and in-hours support Newcastle University has in the region of 6,500 employees who may use the Survey Platform as end users. The University’s ambition is to provide a positive survey experience for all employees, enabled by a platform which includes powerful analytics, reporting tools and technical support when needed. This PIN is designed to alert the market to our future intent to tender for this requirement and to give prospective bidders the opportunity to indicate if they have an existing off-the shelf solution that is scalable to handle as a minimum the volume of employee users noted above, and that has been implemented and running for at least 2 years in an educational establishment of equivalent size and scale or an organisation of similar size and complexity. It will also help us set expectations on what the market can offer when finalising our tender requirements. The Survey Platform will be used across 3 campuses (Newcastle, Malaysia and Singapore) and we expect one solution to be provided to cater for all users. Suppliers that demonstrate they are capable of meeting our requirements may be invited to present virtually or in person at the University in October 2022. Test accounts for independent investigation / testing of system functionality may also be requested. To restate, interest is only invited from parties who have an existing off the shelf solution, deployed in institutions/organisation as described above. We will NOT consider bespoke solutions. Only those applicants who can evidence meeting our high level objectives, will be subsequently invited to discuss further. The contract reference is NU/1808. The deadline for expressing an interest is 26.09.2022 at 14:00 BST To do so, please email Dave Anderson at Dave.Anderson@ncl.ac.uk including evidence of how your solution meets our high level objectives.

Newcastle University is planning to refresh its network infrastructure. This PIN is only an alert to the market that the University will be setting a tender process underway in the spring of 2023. The procurement element of the programme intends to deliver outcomes focussed on a holistic refresh of our Network Infrastructure. We will seek to appoint a suitable partner / integrator capable of meeting the following high-level requirements. The ability and capability to deliver: 1. Design, supply and fulfilment of an agreed suitably sized market-leading wired and wireless network provision over the duration of the contract award; 2. Implementation services and work alongside existing network team to deploy; 3. Enterprise network replacement of both wired, wireless and connectivity across multiple buildings and varying location across the city and remote sites. 4. Underpinning network services (‘software’) to provide deeper integration into the network management tools, enabling monitoring, visibility, automation, enhancements to service reliability and improvements to cyber security. It should be noted that a key output of this future sourcing event will be the development of a medium to long-term collaborative partnership with the successful partner / integrator. The core focus of this relationship will be towards the modernisation of our network infrastructure provision, ensuring that it is future proof and underpinned by University business requirements (over the term of the agreement) within a value for money framework that is customer centric. The University has in the region of 6,500 employees and 30,000 students who all engage with the network in one way or another; the network infrastructure sits at the heart of our IT provision and enables a wide range of operational, external, teaching and research focussed requirements. Our collective ambition is to provide a positive experience for all who engage with the network, enabled by a platform which includes powerful analytics, reporting tools and technical support when needed. As stated above, this PIN is only designed to alert the market to our future intent to tender for this requirement and to give prospective bidders the opportunity to express and register their interest, leading up to the commencement of the tender stage on 10.03.2023. The University intends to use the Competitive Procedure with Negotiation to appoint a single partner/integrator. The contract reference is NU/1866. The deadline for expressing an interest is 03.03.2023 at 14:00 GMT. To do so, please email Dave Anderson at Dave.Anderson@newcastle.ac.uk

Newcastle University requires a Current Research Information System (CRIS) capable of meeting the following high-level requirements. 1. Compliance – External Support compliance with external requirements including Open Access, funder requirements, and UKRI technical standards. 2. Compliance – Internal Support compliance with relevant internal standards and policies on research, publication, and IT security and compliance. 3. Integration Support a variety of integrations with internal systems (such as HR integration) and external systems, via standard technologies such as web services/APIs. This may include: integration with external IDs such as ORCID for researchers, and Digital Object Identifier for publications; and integration with publication platforms such as ResearchFish, Scopus, and Web of Science. 4. Public profiles Ability to publish researcher profiles, populated with key information including publication history and affiliations with research groups, academic units, etc. 5. Publication process Ability to simplify and where possible automate the process of submitting, checking, and appending relevant metadata to articles for publication within the repository 6. Submission and management of research assessment Ability to produce submissions to research assessment or other awarding bodies, including the ability to simulate and analyse submission responses. 7. Research impact Ability to analyse and evidence the impact of research. 8. Reporting Ability to report on all data stored within the CRIS, using either on-the-fly context reporting or by extracting and presenting data within a modern reporting toolset such as Microsoft Power BI. 9. Repository Provide a fully integrated repository as part of solution or provide the ability to integrate to third party repository. Newcastle University has in the region of 6000 researchers (including academics, post graduate researchers, guest and emeritus researchers) who may use the CRIS as administrators and/or end users. The University’s ambition is to provide a unified platform for research management to: • maintain and improve the University’s research capability, impact, visibility and reputation; • manage the University’s research portfolio and output to future research assessment cycles; • maintain sector compliance; • attract high quality researchers and external partners through a strong 'store front' of research activity and experts. This PIN is designed to alert the market to our future intent to tender for this requirement and to give prospective bidders the opportunity to indicate if they have an existing off-the shelf solution that is scalable to (I) handle the volume of employee users noted above as a minimum; (ii) has either been successfully implemented within another UK research-intensive Higher Education Institution or an educational establishment of equivalent size and scale. The CRIS/repository will be used across 3 campuses (Newcastle, Malaysia and Singapore) and we expect one solution to be provided to cater for all users. Suppliers that demonstrate they are capable of meeting our requirements may be invited to present virtually or in person at the University in March 2023. Test accounts for independent investigation / testing of system functionality may also be requested. The contract reference is NU/1885 The deadline for expressing an interest is 27th March 2023 at 2pm BST. To do so, please email Dave Anderson at Dave.Anderson@newcastle.ac.uk