Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Outwood Grange Academies Trust · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Arbor Education Partners Limited
- Value
- £2,181,084.61
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Educational software package (CPV 48190000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 013273-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date2 Apr 2025
- Published7 Apr 2025Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
Outwood's requirement is to have one unified MIS across all of the trusts family of schools to simplify processes and to increase operating efficiency, reduce costs and streamline the user experience. By moving to a more modern cloud based MIS solution, Outwood will drastically reduce the number of individual systems and therefore logins that staff have to use. This migration to a unified system will also help in reducing costs associated with running multiple different operating platforms. The intention is to also remove the additional costs associated with the MIS provision as part of this activity once the current contract expires. Outwood requires an established provider that can incorporate the additional features it requires as part of standard functionality. Outwoods intention is to migrate to the MIS operator that offers the highest level of compatibility to the current systems that the trust operate at the best value. This would ensure the most advantageous offering which loo…
About the supplier
Arbor Education Partners Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 07790198).