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Student Management Systems and Associated Services

Buyer: APUC Limited →

BuyerAPUC Limited
Statusplanned
DeadlineNot published
Value£50,000,000
Published11 May 2026

What is being bought

Framework for Student Management Systems and Associated Services for Universities and Colleges including: provision of all software and any associated licensing. Potential Services include, but are not limited to: System Implementation; Migration; Support; Consultancy; Support and Maintenance; Hosting. Required solutions should have the capability to operate effectively across multi-campus environments. The framework agreement includes: Lot1 - Student Management Systems (Higher Education) Lot2 - Student Management Systems (Further Education Colleges) The agreement will be open to the members of Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC Limited) and other UK procurement consortia. APUC will work in collaboration with Sector Bodies including UKUPC, UCISA and Jisc for the duration of this framework agreement.

Delivery location

UK · UK

Categories

Software package and information systems 48000000Educational software package 48190000Database software package 48611000Systems and technical consultancy services 72220000IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support 72000000

Lot details

HE Student Management Systems

Framework for Student Management Systems and Associated Services for Universities and Colleges, Lot1 - Student Management Systems (Higher Education) including: provision of all software and any associated licensing. Potential Services include, but are not limited to: System Implementation; Migration; Support; Consultancy; Support and Maintenance; Hosting. Required solutions should have the capability to operate effectively across multi-campus environments. The agreement will be open to the members of Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC Limited) and other UK procurement consortia. APUC will work in collaboration with Sector Bodies including UKUPC, UCISA and Jisc for the duration of this framework agreement.

Statusplanned

FE Student Management Systems and Associated Services

Framework for Student Management Systems and Associated Services for Universities and Colleges, Lot2 - Student Management Systems (Further Education) including: provision of all software and any associated licensing. Potential Services include, but are not limited to: System Implementation; Migration; Support; Consultancy; Support and Maintenance; Hosting. Required solutions should have the capability to operate effectively across multi-campus environments. The agreement will be open to the members of Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC Limited) and other UK procurement consortia. APUC will work in collaboration with Sector Bodies including UKUPC, UCISA and Jisc for the duration of this framework agreement.

Statusplanned

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Systems and technical consultancy services, Educational software package, Software package and information systems, Database software packageNot published
2Educational software package, Systems and technical consultancy services, Software package and information systems, Database 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 483,0911 median · 5.9 average (1,007 of 3,091 with a bid count)1.5 average (1,125 of 3,091 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer510 median · 10 average (1 of 5 with a bid count)8 average (1 of 5 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UK8081 median · 8.9 average (231 of 808 with a bid count)2.3 average (268 of 808 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)812 median · 2 average (1 of 81 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 81 with named award suppliers)Not 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 byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0695fd
Latest release ID043137-2026
Latest release timestampMon May 11 2026 14:52:01 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanned
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
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 value£50,000,000
Tender lots in source2
Tender items in source2
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
11 May 2026planning043137-2026

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 (1 releases)
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