Official UK procurement notice
Net Capacity Assessment (NCA) IT Solution Market Engagement Event
Authority: Department for Education (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for funding and standards in education, which includes supporting the delivery of building and maintenance programmes for schools, academies, free schools and sixth-form colleges. At our heart, we are the department for realising potential. In respect of our school buildings, our vision is to provide good quality spaces and places to help schools deliver an excellent education for all children and young people.
The Net Capacity Assessment programme (“NCA”) is a programme to undertake a data collection exercise of up to 5000 secondary schools, special schools and FE colleges in England.
The data collected will encompass room level data such as room size, room use and room type, and will be collected by surveyors contracted to the Department for Education. DfE will also require a data capture solution to support the contracted surveyors to undertake this activity.
It is anticipated that the NCA data capture solution will comprise a cloud based SaaS solution that will provide (inter alia):
(i) Capability for a field based data collection of DfE defined data for both school and FE establishments via surveyor operated mobile device app
(ii) Development and manipulation of the data by surveyor organisation teams via a web app
(iii) Automated nightly transfer of collected data to the Department of Education via mature API, configurable to meet DfE integration and security requirements
(iv) Functionality to ensure secure and configurable reporting / export of data for end users
(v) Adherence to all departmental supplier and system assurance requirements covering data security and data processing.
This PIN is issued by the DfE to engage with the market seeking views for the potential for DfE’s future procurement approach for the delivery of required Surveying Services and associated IT Solution.
The market engagement event will outline the current thinking and provide information around the NCA Programme and seek views for industry specific organisations.
Interested parties must register to attend an in-person event to be held on Wednesday 29 June 2022 in Coventry by no later than 12.00 noon on Tuesday 21 June at:
Further details below.
CPV: Information technology services · Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The NCA programme will be undertaken between 2023 and 2025Planned
The NCA programme will be undertaken between 2023 and 2025. In addition to the data capture solution, the department intends to procure a number of surveying organisations (‘SOs’) to undertake the data collection itself. This notice relates to the procurement of the cloud bases SaaS software solution to support data capture (the “IT Solution”).
The IT Solution supplier will be required to work together with the aforementioned SOs on the NCA programme. It is anticipated that the IT solution will be procured first and we wish to test our current thinking with the market.
In summary the IT Solution must provide:
(i) Capability for a field based data collection of DfE defined data for both school and FE establishments via surveyor operated mobile device app
(ii) Development and manipulation of the data by surveyor organisation teams via a web app
(iii) Automated nightly transfer of collected data to the Department of Education via mature API, configurable to meet DfE integration and security requirements
(iv) Functionality to ensure secure and configurable reporting / export of data for end users
(v) Adherence to all departmental supplier and system assurance requirements, covering data security and data processing
Data being collected, stored and processed by and via the IT Solution is anticipated to be classified as Official and/or Official Sensitive. The IT Solution and associated backend infrastructure will therefore need to be capable of providing sufficient data security at the level of Official Sensitive.
Interested parties must register to attend an in-person event to be held on Wednesday 29 June 2022 in Coventry by no later than 12.00 noon on Tuesday 21 June at:
To participate in this opportunity and register your organisation’s interest in attending the event, please register for an account and view the “current opportunities” page at Jaggaer education.app.jaggaer.com ↗ and search for: “Project_6930.
Full event details will be confirmed following registration of interest. Please note that spaces are currently limited to 70 therefore a maximum of 2 people per organisation are permitted.
Early registration is recommended and spaces will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Also note this event is restricted to industry specific
organisations and DfE reserve the right to restrict attendees accordingly.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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
- 30 May 2022, 14:25 BST
- Last source update
- 30 May 2022, 14:25 BST
- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-015069- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
30 May 2022 → 1 Sept 2022 · 2 dates- Notice published30 May 2022, 14:25 BST
- Tender notice expected1 Sept 2022, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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