Official UK procurement notice
Exam Timetabling · UK public procurement notice
Authority: University of Plymouth (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe University wishes to operate examination scheduling within a more integrated team with significant data integration and greater automation. Therefore, we need to understand the potential offered by current software products in the market to support achievement of these objectives and wish to engage with suppliers in order to: Gain an understanding of functionality (see key requirements below) and potential benefits to be gained from use of the system/service. Gain an understanding of the scale of cost associated with both purchase and implementation. On this basis we will then be building a business case for funding for submission to our internal planning process ahead of a possible procurement process. We are seeking expressions of interest from suppliers describing their product set in this space and, ideally, licensing and cost models as well as typical implementation costs. Please see additional information attached to the notice on Mercell. At this stage we are scoping the budget of this provision, so no cost is associated to this notice at this stage.
CPV: IT software package · Information technology services · Scheduling and productivity software development services · Scheduling software development services · Scheduling software package · Software development services · Software implementation services · Software support services · Software-related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 8 Oct 2025, 13:00 BST
- Last source update
- 8 Oct 2025, 13:00 BST
- Authority reference
KD/UoP/Exam_Timetabling/025- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-063278- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05aa80Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 Oct 2025 → 30 Oct 2025 · 4 dates- Planning notice published383 days ago8 Oct 2025, 13:00 BST
- Market engagement363 days ago28 Oct 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Tender notice expected362 days ago29 Oct 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts362 days ago30 Oct 2025
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Oct 2025, 13:00 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
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