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Published 4 Nov 2025, 16:28 GMT

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Authority: Jisc (Public body)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Sectors: Software Packages & ERP (48)Education & Training (80) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£0pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 31 Jul 2030 · starts 1 Aug 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This Request for Information (RFI) is an information gathering exercise by Jisc and is a public, non-binding pre-market engagement exercise - it is neither a selection nor tender exercise; no evaluation, or contract award will result from this process. Its purpose is to help us understand emerging technologies, platform capabilities and different licensing models. The insights we gain from this process will inform the future direction of our digital content for FE, ensuring it continues to meet the needs of the sector.

Please read the full RFI document for further information - please contact Chris Hallahan, [email protected] for access.

Contract dates for future tenders/contracts, and values cannot be determined at this stage - where stated these are subject to revision.

CPV: Adult and other education services · Higher education services · Secondary education services · Software package and information systems · Training services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 3 yrsSME
Contract period: 1 Aug 2027 – 31 Jul 2030 (3 yrs)
Eligibility: SME eligible
48000000 Software package and information systems80200000 Secondary education services80300000 Higher education services80400000 Adult and other education services80500000 Training services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Jisc buys Secondary education services (CPV 8020), and who usually turns up

Jisc’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Secondary education services (CPV 8020) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerJisc · division 80
The marketSecondary education services (CPV 8020)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 8 of 13 known-size awards · market: CPV 8020 · UK-wide, n=7
62%71%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 0 of 1 known-location awards · market: CPV 8020 · UK-wide, n=15
0 of 160%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 8020 · UK-wide, n=5
—27 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 27 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 4 of 6 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8020 · UK-wide, n=18
67%72%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyerToo few to chart: 2 lots with bid counts, 5 needed · all categories
The market100 lots with bid counts · division 80 · South West England (authority’s region)
15% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid15%
Market: 15 of 100 lots with published bid counts.
2–329%
Market: 29 of 100 lots with published bid counts.
4–635%
Market: 35 of 100 lots with published bid counts.
7+21%
Market: 21 of 100 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyerToo few to chart: 2 lots with estimate and award, 5 needed · all categories
The market82 lots with estimate and award · division 80 · South West England (authority’s region)
39% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate39%
Market: 32 of 82 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%45%
Market: 37 of 82 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate16%
Market: 13 of 82 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
i

What past awards tell you about each lot.

See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.

No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 8036 monthsSME suitableNo real estimate

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 80. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
i

How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 100 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet15% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 100 similar lots
1 bid15%
15 of 100 similar past lots received 1 bid (15%).
2–329%
29 of 100 similar past lots received 2–3 (29%).
4–635%
35 of 100 similar past lots received 4–6 (35%).
7+21%
21 of 100 similar past lots received 7+ (21%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—No real estimate
The buyer published £0 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

Who could compete for this lot?

Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.

None is confirmed as a bidder.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
  • Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

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
Above threshold (FTS publication)
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
4 Nov 2025, 16:28 GMT
Last source update
4 Nov 2025, 16:35 GMT
Authority reference
Proc2898
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-071018
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Adult and other education servicesHigher education servicesSecondary education servicesSoftware package and information systemsTraining services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05da51 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

4 Nov 2025 → 1 Aug 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published356 days ago
    4 Nov 2025, 16:28 GMT
  2. Market engagement332 days ago
    28 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT

    Responses to this RFI can be sent at any time up until the deadline.

    Please read the full RFI document for further information - please contact Chris Hallahan, [email protected] for access.

  3. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 277 days
    1 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 4 Nov 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    4 Nov 2025, 16:28 GMT
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    4 Nov 2025, 16:30 GMT
    UK2
  3. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    4 Nov 2025, 16:35 GMT
    UK2

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

JISC

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-COH: 05747339 · GB-PPON: PGYD-1575-ZHXX 4 Portwall Lane, Bristol, South West, BS1 6NBContact email

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure