Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Southend-on-sea Borough Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- In-Tend Limited SME
- Value
- £283,875
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Contact management software package (CPV 48333000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Aug 2026
- Published8 Sep 2026Published 11 days after the contract date
Description
Southend-on-Sea City Council (the "Buyer") currently has in place two separate solutions/contracts for providing an eSourcing procurement and a contract management system. Both contracts are due to expire on 30th November 2026, the current contract for eSourcing system may be further extended to continue to run alongside the contract for the new system to allow the completion of existing procurements to be finalised. The Buyer is now seeking a single provider (the "Supplier") to provide a securely hosted online system which will combine both the management of the full life cycle for both its procurement (eSourcing) and contract management processes. The eSourcing solution will provide a procurement process tool to manage the end-to-end process cycle covering all stages of the tendering process from notice creation to award of contract, including the automated publication of all notices, expressions of interest, requests for information and request for quotes, the secure exchange of al…
About the supplier
In-Tend Limited: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 05845701).