Official UK procurement notice
Student Case Management System
Authority: University of Huddersfield (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is not a tender exercise. This is a scoping phase and not part of any formal procurement process and there is no commitment to carry out such a process at this stage. Participation or non-participation in this PME exercise shall not prevent any supplier from participating in any future procurement process, nor is it intended that any information provided shall place any supplier at an advantage or disadvantage in any future procurement exercise.
The University of Huddersfield (UoH, we/our, the University) is exploring options for a Student Case Management (SCM) system to improve and modernise our student support offer. For the purposes of the PME we invite potential partners to complete the linked questionnaire based on the primary and secondary enquiries below.
Primary Enquiries
We would like to focus on and gain insight into the following aspects of your product and offer:
- Case Handling Scope - How far does your system support case management for the following areas:
- Regulatory Casework: Complaints, Disciplinaries, Misconduct, Appeals, Fitness to Practise, Attendance Monitoring, OIA Case Reviews
- Academic Tutoring: Academic Skills Tutoring, Personal Academic Tutoring Support
- International Office: Immigration and International Student Case Management, UKVI case monitoring
- Student Services: Wellbeing, Disability, Attendance and Engagement Support
- Case and Enquiry Handling – Creating an Intelligent Front Door
- How does your system manage enquiries and cases?
- Does it support integration with existing enquiry management systems, specifically our existing TopDesk system?
- Can workflows be customised for different case types and escalation paths?
- How does it create an online intelligent front door that can triage and route enquiries, and integrate with physical and telephone service desks?
- Integration Capabilities
- An overview of your integration capabilities and existing connections to student record systems, finance systems and other university applications such as student portals
- Your support for APIs or middleware for custom integrations?
- Product Pricing and Implementation
- Your pricing model for the SCM system? Please include:
o Product licensing: Is it per institution, per user, or another model?
o User licensing: How do you handle different user roles (e.g., staff, students)?
- What are the typical implementation costs and timelines?
- What is your implementation approach?
o Do you offer phased rollouts or full deployment?
o What support and training do you provide during implementation?
Secondary Enquiries
Additionally, we would like to explore how your product addresses the areas detailed below, as well as any additional benefits and functions your product offers:
- Streamline the student case management lifecycle from initiation through to resolution.
- Provide students with secure access to a centralised support channel for timely help and guidance.
- Offer role-based access and control to ensure only authorised users can view or edit sensitive information.
- Enable documents to be captured, stored, organised, and retrieved securely.
- Support staff communication with students and stakeholders through integrated messaging tools (e.g., email, SMS, notifications).
- Facilitate creation, assignment, updating, and closure of cases, capturing key actions and outcomes seamlessly (including appointments and events).
- Track and report on case activity, resolution times, case types, and outcomes to support decision-making and continuous improvement.
- Integrate with key university systems e.g., Student Records and other support systems.
- Maintain an audit trail of all changes, actions, and users involved in each case for accountability and compliance.
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CPV: Educational software package · 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 University of Huddersfield buys Educational software package (CPV 4819), and who usually turns up
University of Huddersfield’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Educational software package (CPV 4819) →
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How often local firms win similar work.
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Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 49 days of the bid deadline.
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Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid11% / 13%
2–311% / 38%
4–656% / 38%
7+22% / 13%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Below estimate13% / 71%
Within ±2%88% / 14%
Above estimate0% / 14%
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Lot #1CPV 4819No real estimate
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1 bid14%
2–328%
4–633%
7+25%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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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
- 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
- 1 Dec 2025, 14:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 1 Dec 2025, 14:05 GMT
- Authority reference
HUD-CLS-074- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-078512- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05ec00Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
1 Dec 2025 → 1 Jul 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published329 days ago1 Dec 2025, 14:05 GMT
- Market engagement311 days ago19 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Interested parties can access the questionnaire via forms.office.com/e/5e1yddVEAD ↗
If you are unable to access the questionnaire via this link or prefer to submit an offline version, please email [email protected] to request an offline version of the questionnaire. Please note it is our preference for the questionnaire to be completed online,
- Completed Questionnaires (either Online or Offline) should be submitted and received by UoH no later than 12pm 19th December 2025.
- UoH will invite selected organisations to an initial product demo meeting related to the primary and secondary enquiries above. These are currently scheduled to take place in January 2026.
Please note that while we aim to engage with a broad range of suppliers, it may not be possible to invite all interested parties to a product demo meeting. Participation in this exercise is voluntary, and there is no obligation for UoH to meet with every supplier who expresses an interest and submits a completed Questionnaire.
- Contract starts118 days ago1 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published1 Dec 2025, 14:05 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
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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