Who won: iRIS Connect

A goods contract from THE OPEN UNIVERSITY. Below: what it involves and how to write a winning bid for it.

Buyer

THE OPEN UNIVERSITY

Published

8 October 2026

About this contract

Online education management and practice learning platform used by the PGCE Partnership Team to support the management, monitoring and assessment of student teachers' school-based practice learning.

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✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — THE OPEN UNIVERSITY scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
✓Lead with evidenced capability and social value — for goods work these usually outweigh price.
✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar goods contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
✓This one's been awarded — but THE OPEN UNIVERSITY retenders on a cycle. Get matched the day the next one lands and start your draft early.

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