Official UK procurement notice
Hopwood Hall College - Provision of HR & Payroll System
Authority: Hopwood Hall College (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionHopwood Hall College seeks to appoint a suitably experienced supplier to provide, implement, and support a fully integrated HR and Payroll system. For more information, please review tender documents.
CPV: Payroll management services · Personnel and payroll services · Time accounting or human resources software package
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1RenewalPublished value£420,000
- Value
- £420,000 exc. VAT · £504,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- Extensions allowed: Yes (2 x 12 months)
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Economic & financial standingPlease review tender documents for more details.
- Technical & professional abilityPlease review tender documents for more details.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
Accounting and auditing services (CPV 7921) in North West England — and who usually turns up
Hopwood Hall College has too little published record in this market to describe on its own; the North West England market stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Accounting and auditing services (CPV 7921) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Hopwood Hall College
contract notices in 36 months: 11 in all categories (5 without competition)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 2 lots. 1 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 18) and 1 from older notices (bids received, middle 3). Small sample.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 2 lots. Small sample.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 2 pairs. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 1 notices. Small sample.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 13 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 11 notices.
North West England · Accounting and auditing services (CPV 7921)
contract notices delivered in North West England in 36 months: 51 in CPV 7921 (37 competed, 6 route not published) · 708 in division 79 (473 competed, 123 route not published) · the notice publishes no delivery location, so the authority’s registered region is used
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7921), last 36 months: 20 lots. 8 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3.5) and 12 from older notices (bids received, middle 3.5).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7921), last 36 months: 20 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7921), last 36 months: 7 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7921), last 36 months: 9 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7921), last 36 months: 14 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7921), last 36 months: 20 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on the North West England market’s usual movement over 7 lots (CPV 7921), applied to the £420,000 estimate on this notice. The range comes from the region’s middle half.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 25 Sept 2026, 13:09 BST
- Last source update
- 25 Sept 2026, 13:09 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 1 Jul 2027, 23:59 BST
- Authority reference
CA18485- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077a8bFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via MultiQuote- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 16 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
5 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today25 Sept 2026, 13:09 BST
- Clarification questions byin 21 days16 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 28 days23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Contract startsin 278 days1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
- Award decision expected byin 279 days1 Jul 2027, 23:59 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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- Tender notice published25 Sept 2026, 13:09 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender