Official UK procurement notice
Chelmsford College Website tender
Authority: Chelmsford College (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionChelmsford College is a Further Education college offering a variety of courses, both vocational and professional courses, with c.3500 student and c400 staff members across two main campuses, providing courses to 16-19 learners, apprentices and adult day and evening courses.
The College website serves a wide array of people in the community from students & parents to local businesses and so the winning design should reflect that the website needs to appeal and be accessible to multiple stakeholder groups.
The website's primary purpose is learner recruitment. Its priority audiences are prospective 16 to 19 learners and their parents and carers, adult learners, and employers and apprenticeship partners. It also serves current students, staff and job seekers.
The college's objectives for the new website are to increase applicant conversion from course page to submitted application, to deliver a mobile-first and fully accessible experience, to provide search and filtering across the full course offer, to allow marketing to publish and update content directly, and to meet the college's information security and data protection requirements, including for the personal data collected through the application process.
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Bidders are encouraged to propose approaches that meet these objectives.
Our current website was built 15 years ago and with only minor cosmetic changes since then. We have 202 pages in total 72 static pages and 130 dynamic pages that contain job adverts, course information and newsletters. All of the content on the website is taken from our internal databases and intranet so any company tendering will need to be able to interface with those tables.
The college has a dedicated team that can handle the daily maintenance and updating of the new website but does not have the time the develop a new website inhouse which is why this project is going out to tender. We are looking for a company that will be able to build the website and then pass it off to the college to manage the day-to-day activities.
You can read more about Chelmsford College on their website: https://www.chelmsford.ac.uk/
CPV: World wide web (www) site design services
How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market
- Market period
- 1 yr from 1 Jan 2027
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Lot 1Planned
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Dynamic market
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 22 Sept 2026, 11:50 BST
- Last source update
- 22 Sept 2026, 11:50 BST
- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077751
How it was run
- Admission period ends
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Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Planning notice publishedearlier today22 Sept 2026, 11:50 BST
- Market engagementin 24 days16 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
We are looking to have our website written in ASP. net, however we understand this in not a popular language to use for websites. We are looking to gauge the level of interest as well as answer a couple of questions before we finalise our documents and go out to tender. We know that Umbraco is the more…
biggest platform for websites written in ASP.net and so want to know a bit more about the system our questions are as follows: If the website is created using Umbraco are we able to host internally or will any site need to be hosted externally? we are looking to add a payment portal but have no fixed idea on what that would be what are the most commonly used ones for you? Our current internal system is Classic ASP, this is being updated to ASp.net do you forsee any issues connecting to our current setup? The value of this tender has been left blank could you advise us what you believe the costing for this project would be? What would be your projected timeline for this project as we want to avoid going live around September when we are busiest? if you are able to answer these questions please drop me an email at [email protected] and i can arrange a chat if necessary - Tender notice expectedin 31 days23 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract startsin 100 days1 Jan 2027, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published22 Sept 2026, 11:50 BSTUK2
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender