# \(NU/1589-40\) Website Quality Assurance Platform

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Newcastle University](/buyers/newcastle-university/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Silktide Ltd](/contract-winners/silktide/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £16,984
- Tender value: £20,000
- Award date: 9 November 2021
- Published: 19 November 2021
- Contract start: 11 November 2021
- Contract end: 10 November 2022
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 4f917dec-3a97-4be7-90ed-897d0747ad05-487131
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-da465421-19f7-4ad2-a613-6795272b5d9f

## Description

We are seeking to procure a quality assurance tool to accurately and frequently monitor and report on https://www\.ncl\.ac\.uk/, in terms of: • ability to see the whole domain and individual sub-domains • identifying broken links and spelling mistakes • readability scoring • accessibility reporting • content and technical SEO reporting • easier reporting/exporting of reports across the domain and specific sub-domains • policies - ability to search for specific things, save the search queries and allow automatic reporting • reporting on image optimisation opportunities • CMS integration • being intuitive and engaging for non-expert web editors • having tailored access for editors • training/onboarding with continuous training available online • mobile responsive reporting • good crawl frequency and accuracy • ability to rank sub-domains against each other We do not currently scan the whole of the web estate\. We requiring a pricing breakdown to detail the cost of scanning: 1\. up to 35,000 pages 2\. up to 50,000 pages 3\. All 104,000 pages on ncl\.ac\.uk

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/4f917dec-3a97-4be7-90ed-897d0747ad05-487131)