Official UK procurement notice
Lift Schools HRIS Pre Market Engagement
Authority: LIFT SCHOOLS (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPre Market Engagement for Lift Schools HRIS. Lift Schools (Lift) is carrying out pre-market engagement to understand how HR, payroll and people systems have developed, what suppliers can realistically provide, and the estimated costs and implementation implications.
CPV: Accounting services · Industry specific software package · Personnel and payroll services · Time accounting or human resources software package
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How LIFT SCHOOLS buys Accounting and auditing services (CPV 7921), and who usually turns up
LIFT SCHOOLS’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. 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
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in Greater London (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.
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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.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 63 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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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.
1 bid50% / 17%
2–30% / 44%
4–610% / 22%
7+40% / 17%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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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.
Below estimate31%
Within ±2%46%
Above estimate23%
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.
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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 7921Estimate not published
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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 18 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid17%
2–344%
4–622%
7+17%
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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.
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.
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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.
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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
- Unspecified in notice
- 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
- 28 Aug 2026, 12:57 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Aug 2026, 13:00 BST
- Authority reference
T336- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-082171- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ee80Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
28 Aug 2026 → 31 Dec 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published55 days ago28 Aug 2026, 12:57 BST
- Market engagement31 days ago21 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
On 30th September 2026 starting at 10am. The Trust will be dedicating a free to attend Event in our head office in London - 1 EdCity Walk, EdCity, London, W12 7TF.
This will be a Presentation from Lift , an open forum and a series of 20 minute 1-2-1 slots for each supplier with a Lift Schools team member. This will also be available remotely should suppliers wish.
We are aiming for these events to be a proactive approach to building collaborative ,transparent and mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers in the financial services sector. We have supplied our draft requirements and rationale as attached, to help shape this engagement.
We are encouraging suppliers to respond should they wish to, based on the draft specification available on the portal,before or after the event on the details below. However, suppliers please note, this is not an invitation to tender at this time and this information may be used to further refine our requirements and give The Trust indicative ideas for budgeting.
Indicative core and optional module costs, licensing basis and support costs.
Implementation, data migration, integration costs.
The internal Lift resource and specialist capability required during implementation.
Indicative timeline from award of contract to go live of system
Functionality available now, configurable options and roadmap commitments.
If you would like to be invited to this event, please register your interest on the Intend Portal in-tendhost.co.uk/educationportal ↗ as a supplier. Then please indicate via correspondence before Monday 21st September 2026 the following;
Your company name
Name(s) of attendees
Y/N for 1-2-1 slot
The requirement for joining online with an email address.
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract starts31 Dec 2027
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 28 Aug 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 Aug 2026, 12:57 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 Aug 2026, 13:00 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Wrong submission date
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender