Contract award · 1 Sep 2026

Attendance and Attainment Monitoring

Cheshire East Council awarded “Attendance and Attainment Monitoring” to Welfare Call LAC Ltd for £156k on 1 Sep 2026. Awarded without open competition.

No competitionSoftware & information systemsNorth West

Value £156k
WinnerWelfare Call LAC Ltd SME

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.

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Key facts

Buyer
Cheshire East Council · Regional or local authority
Value
£155,750
Procedure
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Sector
Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
Timeline
  1. Contract date1 Sep 2026
  2. Published14 Sep 2026Published 13 days after the contract date

Description

The attendance and attainment of children and young people is collected by the solution for CEC for people cared for by the Council who attend schools, or other places of education. This will include data collection from schools and providers both inside and outside of Cheshire East. It is mandatory to: - > Produce & maintain a database of cared for children and young people. As a minimum this should include social worker, education settings and carers information based on data provided by Cheshire East Council > Establish the child's or young person's attendance for both morning and afternoon sessions. > Where children or young people are educated off-site, contact to be made with the alternative provider to check the child or young person's attendance there, subject to agreement with the home school and the Virtual School. > Maintain individual attendance records for each child, using the standard nomenclature and coding for attendance as used in schools as described by the DfE: htt…

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