Official UK procurement notice
Provision of HR & Payroll Software Services
Authority: Capital City College (Education)·On behalf of: AGM Procurement Limited
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionMarket engagement to secure Expressions of Interest to develop a full HR & Payroll software system and procurement strategy. The proposed HR & Payroll system will require a range of functionality as outlined in the brief, organisations capable of providing a suitable system for a busy FE college with approx. 2100 users. are invited to respond to allow for further conversations to be held in accordance with the timetable. All documents are available for free of charge download from the College's appointed system In-Tend Education portal at www.in-tendhost.co.uk/educationportal/aspx… ↗. This is NOT a tender at this stage. This notice is for engagement only to better understand market developments and how best to design a tender moving forwards to ensure best value for money (including use of frameworks).
CPV: Business intelligence software package · Database software package · Financial systems software development services · Financial systems software package · IT software development services · Payroll management services · Software consultancy services · Software development services · Software implementation services · Software package and information systems · Software package suites · Software supply services · +4 more
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Capital City College buys Accounting and auditing services (CPV 7921), and who usually turns up
Capital City College’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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside 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 42 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.
Awards are recorded, but published direct routes and bid counts do not establish this buyer’s share.
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 bid0% / 17%
2–30% / 44%
4–642% / 22%
7+58% / 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 7921Published estimate£1.4m
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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
- Goods
- 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
- 20 Mar 2026, 12:45 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Apr 2026, 12:35 BST
- Authority reference
HRPA_2026- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-033241- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06704fFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
20 Mar 2026 → 1 May 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published216 days ago20 Mar 2026, 12:45 GMT
- Latest notice published192 days ago13 Apr 2026, 12:35 BST
- Market engagement185 days ago20 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
Please respond to the Guidance requirements via the Intend portal for consultation. All documents are available for free of charge download from the College's appointed e-tendering system In-Tend Education portal at www.in-tendhost.co.uk/educationportal/aspx… ↗ Note it is not mandatory to participate in this PME. The PME will be used to better understand and refine requirements before a procurement strategy can be developed. Note CCC reserve the right where best value can be achieved to use a compliant framework for later procurement.
- Tender notice expected143 days ago1 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 190 days1 May 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 20 Mar 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published20 Mar 2026, 12:45 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published26 Mar 2026, 16:28 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Apr 2026, 12:35 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Update to process to clarify this is not a procurement / selection process. Information will be used to determine future strategy.
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
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- AGM Procurement LimitedProcess contact pointProcuring entityOversight
Official documents & specifications (3)
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender