University of Sunderland - Broadcast Studio - Rev 2

University of Sunderland - Broadcast Studio Refresh - Supply, Installation and Integration The University of Sunderland has been providing higher education in the City since 1901 and has held University status since 1992. It is an innovative,forward thinking University with high standards of teaching, research and support and has strong links with industry and business. As well as our two Sunderland-based campuses we operate a site at Canary Wharf in London as well as delivering our programmes to 6,500 overseas students in their own countries. We also operate National Glass Centre, a centre of excellence and visitor attraction for contemporary glass. The University seek to appoint an innovative supplier and integrator to oversee and deploy the key refresh and refurbishment of our prestigious Broadcast professional video and audio capture studio located at the Media Centre St. Peters - one of our Sunderland based campuses. The refresh work will be undertaken and completed between 13th June, 2016 -14th July, 2016. By responding to this Prior Information Notice (PIN) you are confirming that you are able to release resource and undertake the pre market engagement during the period identified below. The broadcast Studio at the Media Centre on St. Peters Campus forms a key area of teaching and learning for the media arm of Arts, Design and Media at the University of Sunderland. The area is heavily utilised by media students (Broadcast Media and Broadcast Journalism for example) for a variety of broadcast related requirements and course content. It is also anticipated that the proposed solution will integrate with the existing trilogy system (for talkback) and existing post production systems including media composer and premiere whilst utilising the existing edit share base for video file storage. The successfully appointed suppliers will be expected to complete an upgrade of the existing provision focusing on the following set of specifications and essential functionality. Further information is available within the tender package. Please note, failure to return any element of the Business Probity or the ITT and Pricing Schedule will disqualify your response.