Original Tender Description
The University of Southampton's Residences team are looking to procure a cloud hosted, user friendly, future-facing student accommodation management system. The system will actively support enabling modern flexible integration options, resulting in an improved student experience.
The primary object of the system will be to manage end to end, pre and post arrival transactions and data relating to student residential services.
The student accommodation management system must be cloud hosted. Completion of migration to a new cloud hosted solution must complete no later than November 2026. For the purposes of this procurement, completion of migration is defined as:
• Full implementation of the new cloud‑hosted system;
• Completion of all acceptance testing with outcomes approved by the University;
• Completion of all data migration activities, with all data successfully transferred, validated and operational within the new system before 'go live';
• The system is fully in place, live and ready for use with no dependency on the legacy solution.
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