Award Management System

The University of Bristol (UoB) approved a business case to procure an Award Management System to manage research (and research-related) grant costings.

The main objective of the procurement is to deliver a solution which:

• Produces fEC/TRAC compliant costs and prices
• Associates multiple costings with a research project
• Cost and prices complex research projects involving multiple internal organisational structures, funders and external collaborators
• Has scheme templates for major funders provided as standard by the supplier
• Has the capability for the UoB to create Scheme templates for other funders
• Has a Dashboard with milestone information relating to the progress of research applications
• Integrates with the UoB ERP System for staff costings and project set up
• Integrates with the Case Management System for providing milestone information to the academic community
• Has the capability to configure, review and approval workflows
• Has the provision of funder specific submission reports for funder portals
• Records award acceptance information
• Generates standard and customised reports, for workflow tasks and approvals, and for application and award data
• Exchanges data analytics with management information tools, such as Business Objects

Additional information:

The dates indicated in Section 1 and the contract value assume that the option to extend is exercised in full. The initial contract period will be for 5 years with the option to extend for a maximum of a further 5 years.