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Procurement of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) System

Buyer: Buckinghamshire Council →

BuyerBuckinghamshire Council
Statusplanning
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published9 Dec 2025

What is being bought

Buckinghamshire Council is looking to procure and implement a Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software system for managing the Corporate Project Management Office (PMO), the Capital PMO, and Service Improvement-led projects. The overarching aim of the project is to: • Further improve the capabilities and capacity to deliver a streamlined and professional service with consistency in reporting and readily accessible, high-quality records. • To create efficiencies in processes within Service Improvement, Corporate PMO and Capital PMO, and other areas if required. • To improve project management related reporting capabilities across these teams. • To improve corporate visibility across all current Income and Expenditure / PMO (and other areas if required) projects. • To enable automated resource management capabilities and better-inform decision-making on resource allocations.

Categories

Software package and information systems 48000000Project management software package 48331000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning
Contract periodFrom 1 Jun 2026 to 31 May 2030
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Software package and information systems, Project management software packageNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 48. The category anchor is Software package and information systems (48000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 486,6281 median · 9.7 average (2,418 of 6,628 with a bid count)1.7 average (2,830 of 6,628 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones1
MilestoneTypeDueStatus
Buckinghamshire Council is inviting suppliers to participate in this market engagement exercise by reviewing the scope outlined and submitting responses to the accompanying questionnaire. The purpose of this engagement is to gather market insight that will inform the design of the future Project Portfolio Management (PPM) System procurement. To participate in this exercise, please complete the preliminary market engagement questionnaire via the Council's In-tend Portal here: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/buckinghamshire-council 1. This Request for Information and any related documents referred to have been prepared by the Council for the purpose of market engagement to gather information. 2. The Request for Information documents are intended only as a preliminary background explanation and are not intended to form the basis of any decision on whether to enter into any contractual relationship with the Council.engagement22 Dec 2025scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05f0b5
Latest release ID081266-2025
Latest release timestampTue Dec 09 2025 20:31:09 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanning
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categorygoods
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
9 Dec 2025planningUpdate081266-2025
8 Dec 2025planning080576-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
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