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| Q1 | Please describe what steps have been taken or plans | What is NORDUnets expectations that we provide? E.g. company environmental strategy, actions etc. | We expect to see your company environmental strategy and actions, but also those relating to specifically your IaaS or equipment hosting provider. |
| Q7 | Please describe in detail how the system supports open courses, with and/or without registration. Is it possible to have part of a course as open and other parts of the course as closed? | Please define your expectations for registration and open/closed. | We expect that a participant can self-register for a course, creating an account in the system without needing help from an administrator. A student may browse open courses to select a course to participate in. Open courses should have the same functionality as a closed course, assignments, discussion, quizzes, etc. Successful course completion results in automatic acknowledgment (badges, points or certificates). In a closed course students are added via a system like LADOK or manually by an administrator. |
| Q12 | Please describe the workflow and teacher overview during an examination using a group discussion/forum. | Please elaborate and be more specific | A teacher creates a discussion forum which will be available during a certain period of time. The discussion forum can be opened and closed automatically. Students may be connected to the forum. If the teacher wants to use groups, either several discussion forums are created or one discussion forum may contain several (project) groups. Students are supposed to upload an assignment which others students have to comment. This can be dealt with by two students (one student uploads an assignment and one other student comments it) or by a larger group of students. A teacher may change the groups during the examination so that other students may comment the assignments, as well. Another scenario is the following: a group of students are assigned to work on one group assignment in a discussion forum before uploading it in a final version. This version may be corrected by a teacher or another group. From a discussion forum it should be possible to upload the same assignment for correction by a teacher only. |
| Service Catalogue | In regards to the evaluation structure of the service catalogue ("NORDUnet LMS Service Catalogue reply form") you have two sections with the same name ("LMS Mandatory Additional Services, Features and Functions") - is that intentionally or is the second one ment to state something else like "Optional" rather than "Mandatory". If intentional, please explain why. | It is correct that the second paragraph should read Optional rather than Mandatory, as below LMS Optional Additional Services, Features and Functions A new version of the template has been uploaded to the box folder. | |
| Service Catalogue | In regards to the evaluation structure of the service catalogue ("NORDUnet LMS Service Catalogue reply form") there are 6 items under the first "LMS Mandatory Additional Services, Features and Functions" section. | Does the term "Mandatory" hear mean that suppliers that can not supply ANY of these Mandatory services are disqualified?" | Mandatory implies that if a bidder can not supply a requested mandatory feature, the bidder could potentially be disqualified.
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Delivery | Our system evolves with several new releases and updates on a frequently basis. | How does NORDUnet define the readymade solution? | The readymade solution is as defined through the requirements and questions in the ITSOP and ITSFB. We are aware that as all cloud services this is an iterative process. For the functionality that are included in the proposed solution, it must be available according to R2 in the ITSOP “The proposed services and features shall be ready for service by end Q1 2017” |
Delivery | Our system evolves with several new releases and updates on a frequently basis. | What date is the solution delivery deadline? | As above
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Dialogue | In stage 1 all suppliers had one day dialogue. | Will there be a dialogue session between the ITSFB response deadline and the Contract Award? | There might be a web conference session to clear up any unclear points in the ITSFB response. |
Commercial | In the dialogue session, we discussed the potential number of users and universities. You mentioned that NORDUnet would define a minimum number in order to proceed with the framework. | What number of schools and users do you expect will sign up for the framework agreement? | NORDUnet will award the framework contracts regardless. It is SUNET representative that has mentioned that they would want a minimum commitment from their community to do a call off. The whole setup is based on opt-in and therefore it is impossible to make any expected or guaranteed assumptions on the uptake. |
Generic | Our assumption is that all suppliers has sent questions during the process. | Are all questions and answers available for us? | Q&A’a from the ITSOP stage is available in an anonymized format here… http://tender.nordu.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=58954465 Questions relating to the ITSFB stage will be added on an ongoing basis. |
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