Official UK procurement notice
Management Information System (MIS) for the Adult College
Authority: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Adult College is undertaking early market engagement to inform potential suppliers of the Council’s intention to procure a replacement Management Information System (MIS) for the Adult College.
The Council is exploring the market to identify a modern, scalable and fully supported solution that meets the current and future needs of the Adult College.
The replacement MIS must support learner administration, funding and compliance requirements, reporting, and management information functions, while improving operational efficiency and the learner experience. The Council intends to undertake a competitive procurement process, with implementation required no later than 1 May 2027.
Through this market engagement, the Adult College is seeking to understand the range of suitable MIS solutions available to support adult education delivery, including learner records, enrolment, curriculum planning, attendance monitoring, funding and statutory returns, reporting, data migration, implementation, training, system integration, ongoing support, and future system development.
This market engagement is for information-gathering purposes only and does not constitute a call for competition, a tender opportunity, or a commitment by the Council to proceed with any procurement. Any future procurement will be conducted in accordance with the Council’s procurement rules and all applicable legislation.
Suppliers are advised to register on the Council’s e-tendering portal lbbd.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml ↗ and central digital platform Suppliers: How to register your organisation and first administrator on Find a Tender in three easy steps (HTML) - GOV.UK. where the tenders may be published
Please contact us expressing your interest for this opportunity by Friday 14th August 2026 to [email protected]
CPV: Database-management system · Educational software development services · Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How London Borough of Barking and Dagenham buys Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221), and who usually turns up
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham’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: Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221) →
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 77 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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?
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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 bid18% / 0%
2–321% / 25%
4–648% / 25%
7+12% / 50%
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 estimate46% / 50%
Within ±2%31% / 50%
Above estimate23% / 0%
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 7221Estimate 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 102 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–331%
4–631%
7+29%
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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
- 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
- 27 Jul 2026, 15:24 BST
- Last source update
- 27 Jul 2026, 15:24 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-070872- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06d474Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
27 Jul 2026 → 2 Aug 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published87 days ago27 Jul 2026, 15:24 BST
- Market engagement68 days ago14 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Adult College is undertaking early market engagement to inform potential suppliers of the Council’s intention to procure a replacement Management Information System (MIS) for the Adult College.
The Council is exploring the market to identify a modern, scalable and fully supported solution that meets the current and future needs of the Adult College.
The replacement MIS must support learner administration, funding and compliance requirements, reporting, and management information functions, while improving operational efficiency and the learner experience. The Council intends to undertake a competitive procurement process, with implementation required no later than 1 May 2027.
Through this market engagement, the Adult College is seeking to understand the range of suitable MIS solutions available to support adult education delivery, including learner records, enrolment, curriculum planning, attendance monitoring, funding and statutory returns, reporting, data migration, implementation, training, system integration, ongoing support, and future system development.
This market engagement is for information-gathering purposes only and does not constitute a call for competition, a tender opportunity, or a commitment by the Council to proceed with any procurement. Any future procurement will be conducted in accordance with the Council’s procurement rules and all applicable legislation.
Suppliers are advised to register on the Council’s e-tendering portal lbbd.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml ↗ and central digital platform Suppliers: How to register your organisation and first administrator on Find a Tender in three easy steps (HTML) - GOV.UK. where the tenders may be published
Please contact us expressing your interest for this opportunity by Friday 14th August 2026 to [email protected]
- Tender notice expected20 days ago1 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 284 days2 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 Jul 2026, 15:24 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