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Published 24 Mar 2025, 15:12 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

CRM System · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: The College of West Anglia (Education)

Direct awardSME suitable
Awarded value£313,692published award · exc. VAT
Award in standstill Not publishedno call for competition
Award (standstill) to Babelquest Services

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Hubspot CRM System being delivered and supported by Babelquest Services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Direct award
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Notice status
Awarded without competition
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Direct award (no call for competition)
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
24 Mar 2025, 15:12 GMT
Last source update
24 Mar 2025, 15:12 GMT
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-010947
Latest notice
Transparency notice (UK5)
Delivery area
North East (UKC)North West (UKD)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)East Midlands (UKF)West Midlands (UKG)East of England (UKH)London (UKI)South East (UKJ)
+1 moreSouth West (UKK)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04f801 Find a Tender
Why no open competition
Prototypes Development; Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
Published justification

Prototype and Development:

This is a bespoke solution to connect our student journey into a single platform based on their existing HubSpot Education Framework, and customise it to connect to other college systems to enable secure data sharing with different departments, including B2B, Higher Education, Apprenticeships, Events and alumni management.

Single Supplier Technical Reasons:

. The HubSpot licence cost is the same regardless of whether it is contracted with BabelQuest, directly with HubSpot, or via another HubSpot Solutions Partner. The services element of the solution offered by BabelQuest has been designed specifically for CWA, and based on an existing Education-specific framework that they have developed and deployed at other institutions, and this represents a saving for the college compared with designing these implementation and support services from scratch.

BabelQuest has a proven methodology for the technical design, implementation, testing, training, launch and ongoing managed service for support and enhancement of the specific HubSpot-based solution the college requires. They are the only UK-based HubSpot Solutions Partner with this proven capability in the education sector and the only HubSpot partner approved by CCS on G-Cloud-14

Notice history

2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 24 Mar 2025
  1. Transparency notice published
    24 Mar 2025, 15:12 GMT
    UK5
  2. Contract signature expected
    3 Apr 2025, 23:59 BST
    scheduled

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1some still in standstill
Awarded value £313,6921 award exc. VAT
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Babelquest Services4 Apr 2025 – 3 Apr 2029£313,692—Standstill

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

College of West Anglia

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PHMP-5191-QLGZ · GB-UKPRN: 10007916 Tennyson Avenue, King's Lynn, East of England, PE30 2QWContact name, email, phone

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • BabelQuest ServicesAwarded supplierGB-COH: 07190490 9 Vineyard Chambers, Vineyard, Abingdon, South East, OX14 3PXContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Transparency notice awardTransparency noticeUK5Transparency notice on Find a Tender