[Moodle] ultranet: moodle doesn't fit department's requirements

[Donna Benjamin]

Hi folks,

Moodle.com.au didn't submit to the original tender process, because they
couldn't meet all the requirements, and it wasn't clear whether the
department would accept a consortium response.

Here's the response I got from the ultranet team...

cheers
Donna

Ms Benjamin 

Thank you for your e-mail concerning the release of the selective tender
for the Ultranet and your suggestions about the Moodle software
solution.

The Department is committed to delivering the Ultranet project to all
Victorian government schools by Quarter 3, 2010.  

The Department decided to release a Request for Tender to five software
vendors through a selective tender process following an independent
market sounding of the local and global market.  

The market sounding exercise subjectively assessed existing software
solutions that could potentially meet the Department's requirements for
the Ultranet project and the key Government priorities of teaching and
learning management and a parent portal.  Five software vendors were
identified as being able to achieve an acceptable solution
implementation outcome.  

The Ultranet will be implemented as an enterprise solution and the
successful vendor will adopt an enterprise approach to intranet
development.

Moodle was assessed and was not a close enough fit against the
Department's requirements for the Ultranet project.  Therefore Moodle
was not suitable for this selective tender.

The market has already had the opportunity to respond to an open Request
for Tender.  The Department released an Ultranet Request for Tender in
August 2007 and completed the tender evaluation process without being
able to select a successful tenderer.
  
Thanks

<name removed>
Project Manager
Ultranet Project


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