Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 22 Sept 2026, 11:50 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Chelmsford College Website tender

Authority: Chelmsford College (Education)

Dynamic marketServicesBelow thresholdSME suitable
Framework ceiling (notional)Value not publishedframework ceiling, not attributable revenue
Tender notice expected 23 Oct 2026from the planned procurement notice
Market period 1 yrstarts 1 Jan 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Chelmsford 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 published
Lot #1Lot 1Planned 1 yrSME
Contract period: 1 Jan 2027 — 31 Dec 2027 (1 yr)Eligibility: SME eligibleDelivery: East of England
72413000 World wide web (www) site design services

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)
World wide web (www) site design services
Delivery area
East of England (UKH)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077751

How it was run

Admission period ends

Timeline

4 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Planning notice publishedearlier today
    22 Sept 2026, 11:50 BST
  2. Market engagementin 24 days
    16 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
  3. Tender notice expectedin 31 days
    23 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract startsin 100 days
    1 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
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    22 Sept 2026, 11:50 BSTUK2

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Chelmsford College

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PPHT-3744-XBMQ Moulsham Street College Campus 102 Moulsham Street, Chelmsford, East of England, CM2 0JQ

Official documents & specifications (1)

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