Official UK procurement notice
Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service - Learning Management System/Virtual Learning Environment
Authority: Suffolk County Council (Local council)
Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) is seeking a cloud-based digital solution to support workforce learning, competency management and structured assessment processes. The system must enable the delivery and management of learning across operational and support roles, including role-based assignment of training, group management and the recording of both online and instructor-led learning.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSuffolk Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) is seeking a cloud-based digital solution to support workforce learning, competency management and structured assessment processes. The system must enable the delivery and management of learning across operational and support roles, including role-based assignment of training, group management and the recording of both online and instructor-led learning. A key requirement is the ability to support structured assessment workflows, including the capture of learner evidence, assessor review and internal quality assurance (IQA), with clear audit trails to support compliance and inspection requirements. The solution should support mobile and offline access, enable real-time recording of practical assessments and provide reporting to monitor compliance and progression. The procurement includes implementation, configuration, and ongoing support.
CPV: E-learning services · Educational software package
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Suffolk County Council buys Educational software package (CPV 4819), and who usually turns up
Suffolk County Council’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) →
How the contest usually goes
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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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in East of England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
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.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 55 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid6% / 14%
2–326% / 43%
4–639% / 29%
7+29% / 14%
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 estimate23% / 67%
Within ±2%68% / 17%
Above estimate9% / 17%
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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.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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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 4819Published estimate£70k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 45 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid18%
2–327%
4–640%
7+16%
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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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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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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.
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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.
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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. Contracts Finder contracts appear on the Retender Radar, not yet in these figures.
- 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
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- 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
- 4 Nov 2026, 15:45 GMT
- Last source update
- 4 Nov 2026, 15:45 GMT
- Authority reference
ITS 324- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-104822- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b338Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 Nov 2026 → 1 Mar 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published1h ago4 Nov 2026, 15:45 GMT
- Today4 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 26 days30 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform a future procurement for a digital learning and assessment platform. Suppliers are invited to complete a questionnaire to provide information on their systems and capabilities, particularly in relation to learning management, assessment workflows and internal quality assurance processes. The engagement is intended to:
- Understand the current supplier market and available solutions
- Assess the capability of systems to support structured assessment and quality assurance workflows
- Identify potential implementation approaches and constraints
- Inform the procurement approach and specification development.
The engagement will consist of completion of an online questionnaire and may be followed by supplier demonstrations using defined scenarios.
Survey link: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/U2DHh6sFKj ↗
Preliminary Market Engagement – Fill in form
Response deadline: 30/11/2026 before 17:00.
No formal evaluation or selection will take place as part of this engagement. The information gathered will be used to inform future procurement activity.
Please note that responses received will be recorded and used to inform and reflect future procurements. This will ensure that any resulting tender pack provides information such that all bidders have the same information and no potential bidder unable to respond is disadvantaged. No sensitive or confidential information will be shared.
Interested parties should respond to the questionnaire by 17:00 on 30th November 2026.
This notice is intended as an awareness, communication and information gathering exercise. Participation is no indication of a commitment to partake in any future tendering process, nor does it infer any preferential or special status on those individuals and organisations who participate.
Please also note that this notice is not intended as a call for competition and as such you will need to express your interest in any future tender opportunity once the tender notice is published.
All future tender documents will be available on Suffolk County Council E- tendering portal: www.suffolksourcing.uk ↗
We look forward to your participation and contributions.
- Tender notice expectedin 33 days7 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 116 days1 Mar 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published4 Nov 2026, 15:45 GMTUK2
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
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