Soft Market Testing Exercise in Relation to the Procurement of a Placement Management System

The University of Southampton is currently exploring a range of options to help form the overall strategy to support and manage student placements with an IT system (which could include sandwich years in industry,study abroad opportunities, and programmes which include a significant number of placements such as nursing,medicine and PGCE's). Interested parties are invited to complete and return the Questionnaire, deadline for the receipt of completed Questionnaires is 15th February (11am). Responses received as part of this exercise shall be used to help shape the University's final specification of system requirements and scope any resultingprocurement process. Please Note this soft market exercise is intended to allow interested organisationswith appropriate experience to outline their views and provide impartial information to the University with nocommitment to themselves or the University. This is not a call for competition at this stage.

Additional information: This Soft Market Testing Exercise (SMTE) is being conducted electronically and the SMTE Questionnaire can be downloaded from the web portal (In-Tend) at https://intendhost.co.uk/universityofsouthampton

If you are not already registered as a supplier with the In-Tend Portal, you will need to register before accessing the questionnaire.

Once you have logged in as a supplier, click on current tenders and locate the project by clicking on the reference number 17/PROF/01. Further instructions for the submission of a response are below. Please note that to preserve the integrity of the SMTE procedure, all queries must made be via the correspondence function within In-Tend.

To submit your response, please follow the instructions below:

1. Log In;
2. My Tenders;
3. View Tender Details;
4. View Documents;
5. Browse and upload each part of your response (or Zip File);
6. Once All your response documents are uploaded and displayed in the - My Documents for Return - use -Submit My Return.