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Employee Self- Service Optimisation

BuyerWest Northamptonshire Council

Statusplanning

DeadlineNot published

ValueValue not published

Published6 Jun 2025

What is being bought

We are seeking qualified vendors to provide an Employee Self Service (ESS) Portal and to understand indicative supplier pricing and capabilities. The system must integrate seamlessly with our existing HR system Enterprise Resource Planning solution (Unit4's Business World) and be accessible on all devices to enable employees access payslips, submit expense claims, and manage annual leave.

Delivery location

UKF2, GB

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning

Contract periodFrom 1 Jan 2026 to 1 Jan 2030

What is included

Item	Category	Quantity
1	Software package and information systems, IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support, Administration services	Not published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 48. The category anchor is Software package and information systems (48000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison set	Procedures	Reported bids per procedure	Named award suppliers	Price evidence
Market: CPV division 48	6,837	1 median · 9.6 average (2,488 of 6,837 with a bid count)	1.8 average (2,928 of 6,837 with named award suppliers)	Not published
Same buyer	6	Not published	Not published	Not published
Delivery region: UKF2	26	1 median · 1.1 average (9 of 26 with a bid count)	1 average (11 of 26 with named award suppliers)	Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published

Dynamic purchasing systemNot published

Competitive procurementNot published

Recurring requirementNot published

Procurement method rationaleNot published

Rationale classificationsNot published

Special regimeNot published

Covered byNot published

Submission policyNot published

Selection criteriaNot published

Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published

No-engagement rationaleNot published

Planning documents1

Planning milestones1

Milestone	Type	Due	Status
Please contact procurement@westnorthants.gov.uk and a supplementary document including questionnaire will be sent to you. Please ensure this is complete no later than Friday 13th June 4pm.	engagement	13 Jun 2025	scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender planning · marketEngagementNotice

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCID	ocds-h6vhtk-052703
Latest release ID	030582-2025
Latest release timestamp	Fri Jun 06 2025 12:19:29 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Source	find-a-tender
Official notice URL	Not published
Tender status	planning
Procurement method	Not published
Procurement method details	Not published
Main procurement category	services
Above threshold	Not published
Legal basis	2023/54
Tender period: start	Not published
Tender period: end	Not published
Expression of interest deadline	Not published
Enquiry deadline	Not published
Award period: start	Not published
Award period: end	Not published
Submission method details	Not published
Submission languages	Not published
Electronic catalogue policy	Not published
Total tender value	Not published
Tender lots in source	1
Tender items in source	1
Tender documents in source	0
Awards in latest release	0
Contracts in latest release	0
Parties in latest release	1

Notice history

Date	Event	Reference
6 Jun 2025	planning	030582-2025
27 May 2025	planning	027736-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)

6 Jun 2025 · 030582-2025 · planning

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27 May 2025 · 027736-2025 · planning

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