Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 12 Jun 2026, 15:37 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Human Resources Information System

Authority: Liverpool Experience Campus Ltd (Public body)

GoodsAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£400,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 4 Aug 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 30 Nov 2030 · up to 30 Nov 2036 with extensions · starts 1 Dec 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Liverpool Experience Campus (LEX) is looking to engage with suppliers of a human resources information system. Should this requirement proceed to tender, LEX is considering splitting the contract into 2 LOTs of:

  • LOT 1: End to end HR information system
  • LOT 2: Time and Attendance system

Should the contract be tendered by LEX, suppliers would be invited to apply for one or both LOTs. The system(s) would need to be provided by either one single supplier; or hold interoperability with the appointed supplier of the other LOT. LEX wishes to partner with a supplier and will potentially offer a contract of up to 10 years consisting of an initial 4-year contract with 2 extension options of 3 years per extension option. The estimated value of the contract consists of initial set-up costings over the first 1 to 2 years with ongoing maintenance costs for the duration of the maximum 10 years.

Potential suppliers are invited to a virtual one-to-one meeting to discuss your system and offering for one or both of the potential LOTs. These one-to-one meetings are to be pre-booked and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Meetings will last for 1 hour and are available between 9am and 4pm on Wednesday 1st July 2026 and between 9am and 4pm on Friday 3rd July 2026. Potential suppliers are requested to e-mail [email protected] with preferred date(s)/time(s) to reserve a time slot. Your time slot will only be confirmed by return of e-mail. The deadline to request a time slot is 12pm on Monday 29th June 2026.

LEX may utilise the feedback in the development of a Specification which will form part of any future tender exercise. It is not a mandatory requirement to participate in this engagement exercise. However, it is hugely helpful to LEX if suppliers can participate in order to assist LEX in the shaping of any planned tender process.

CPV: Software package and information systems · Time accounting or human resources software package

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 4 yrs
Contract period: 1 Dec 2026 – 30 Nov 2030 (4 yrs) · up to 30 Nov 2036 with extensions
Delivery: North West
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Liverpool Experience Campus Limited buys Time accounting or human resources software package (CPV 4845), and who usually turns up

Liverpool Experience Campus Limited’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: Time accounting or human resources software package (CPV 4845) →

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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 buyerLiverpool Experience Campus Limited · all categories
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: 3 of 10 known-size awards · market: CPV 4845 · North West England, n=7
30%14%

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. The market figure counts awards delivered in North West England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 14 known-location awards · market: CPV 4845 · North West England, n=9
7%11%

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: 7 decided notices · market: CPV 4845 · UK-wide, n=19
57 days62 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 57 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.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 9 of 14 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4845 · North West England, n=9
64%56%

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 buyer7 lots with bid counts · all categories
43% had one bid
The market21 lots with bid counts · CPV 4845 · UK-wide
14% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid43% / 14%
Buyer: 3 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 21 lots with published bid counts.
2–314% / 29%
Buyer: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 21 lots with published bid counts.
4–629% / 24%
Buyer: 2 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 21 lots with published bid counts.
7+14% / 33%
Buyer: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 21 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 buyer6 lots with estimate and award · all categories
0% below estimate
The market18 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4845 · UK-wide
56% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate0% / 56%
Buyer: 0 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 10 of 18 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%100% / 28%
Buyer: 6 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 18 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 17%
Buyer: 0 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 18 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 484548 monthsPublished estimate£400k
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 61 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet13% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 61 similar lots
1 bid13%
8 of 61 similar past lots received 1 bid (13%).
2–326%
16 of 61 similar past lots received 2–3 (26%).
4–636%
22 of 61 similar past lots received 4–6 (36%).
7+25%
15 of 61 similar past lots received 7+ (25%).
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 model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £400k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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
Goods
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
12 Jun 2026, 15:37 BST
Last source update
12 Jun 2026, 15:37 BST
Authority reference
TT000171
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-055821
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Software package and information systemsTime accounting or human resources software package
Delivery area
North West (UKD72)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06b44b Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

12 Jun 2026 → 1 Dec 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published136 days ago
    12 Jun 2026, 15:37 BST
  2. Market engagement119 days ago
    29 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST

    Potential suppliers are invited to a virtual one-to-one meeting to discuss your system and offering for one or both of the potential LOTs. These one-to-one meetings are to be pre-booked and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Meetings will last for 1 hour and are available between 9am and 4pm on Wednesday 1st July 2026 and between 9am and 4pm on Friday 3rd July 2026.

    Potential suppliers are requested to e-mail [email protected] with preferred date(s)/time(s) to reserve a time slot. Your time slot will only be confirmed by return of e-mail.

    The deadline to request a time slot is 12pm on Monday 29th June 2026.

    LEX may utilise the feedback in the development of a Specification which will form part of any future tender exercise. It is not a mandatory requirement to participate in this engagement exercise. However, it is hugely helpful to LEX if suppliers can participate in order to assist LEX in the shaping of any planned tender process.

  3. Tender notice expected83 days ago
    4 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Today
    26 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 35 days
    1 Dec 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    12 Jun 2026, 15:37 BST
    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

Liverpool Experience Campus Ltd

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PVQY-1248-GZBX 16 Monarchs Quay, Kings Dock, Liverpool, North West, L3 4FPContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure