Postgraduate Assessment Rules

Role

Delivery of postgraduate student finance products began in 2015 since then SLC has engaged multiple third party partner organisations to help develop, evolve and maintain the post-graduate (PG) rules engine. Thoughtworks were involved in the early inception of the service, providing the SLC with additional software development staff to develop the initial core functions of the service to deliver the PG Masters and then PG Doctoral products. Mastek provided software development staff to supplement SLC and Thoughtworks as regular annual updates were implemented and the new PG Doctoral product was launched. Atos / Eviden replaced the previous partners and provided continued involvement alongside SLC development staff implementing annual changes from updated government policy.

Procurement procedure

SLC - Awarded via Framework - Technology Services 2 Agreement - RM3804 The original supplier involved in the procurement is a legacy supplier that are no longer involved with the product which is developed within SLC.

Data access terms

The terms of access to (Government) data granted to the supplier are provided within the Framework Terms and Conditions of the Technology Service 2 Framework Agreement - RM3804. In specific clause 22.7 discusses the license granted by the Customer to the Supplier as follows: The Customer hereby grants to the Supplier a royalty-free, non- exclusive, non-transferable licence during the Call Off Contract Period to use the Customer Software, the Customer Background IPR and the Customer Data solely to the extent necessary for providing the Services in accordance with this Call Off Contract.