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T2672 - Provision of software, licensing, maintenance, support and upgrade of Corporate HR and Payroll System

No classification published
Location not published
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Belfast City Council: "T2672 - Provision of software, licensing, maintenance, support and upgrade of Corporate HR and Payroll System". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityBelfast City CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Belfast City Council
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Belfast City Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
2Bids / Report
50% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
John McQuillan (Contracts) LtdTop vendor: 56.2% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 43 active published awards; 4 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
John McQuillan (Contracts) Ltd1 win£3,257,922
Ralph Appelbaum Associates1 win£1,736,159
WJM1 win£800,000
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityBelfast City Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published5 Jan 2026, 17:19 GMT
Last source update5 Jan 2026, 17:19 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationNot published
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05d3b6
What is being bought
The Council require the continued use of the current Corporate HR & payroll system provided by Zellis Ltd to ensure that operational, regulatory and legislative requirements are met and are managed in an efficient way and employees are correctly paid via the Payroll module. The contract is for software licensing, maintenance, support and includes moving from an on premise solution to a cloud based solution.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    5 Jan 2026, 17:19 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    11 Dec 2025, 10:50 GMT
  3. Official notice release published
    9 Dec 2025, 17:30 GMT
  4. Status changed to complete
    24 Oct 2025, 17:15 BST
  5. Official notice release published
    24 Oct 2025, 17:15 BST
  6. Buyer information updated
    24 Oct 2025, 17:15 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    complete
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    5 Jan 2026, 17:19 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 24 Dec 2025, 00:00 GMT · £1,261,400
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
ZELLIS UK LIMITED
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
T2672 - Provision of software, licensing, maintenance, support and upgrade of Corporate HR and Payroll System
£1,261,400 · signed 24 Dec 2025, 00:00 GMT · active
Contract period: 1 Feb 2026, 00:00 GMT — 31 Jan 2029, 23:59 GMT
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Belfast City Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PQXY-5321-CGZM
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  • Belfast City Council
    buyer

    GB-PPON: PQXY-5321-CGZM
    9-21 Adelaide Street, Belfast, UKN06, BT2 8DJ, GB
    cps@belfastcity.gov.uk

  • Zellis UK Limited
    supplier

    GB-PPON: PQHG-5162-TXDV
    740 Waterside Drive Aztec West Almondsbury, Bristol, UKK12, BS32 4UF, GB
    elva.mackay@zellis.com
Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied

  • Not published

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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleThis notice is issued in accordance with Chapter 3 Direct Award, Schedule 5, point 6 of the Procurement Act 2023 to advise of and explain the use of the Direct Award procedure in this instance. The maintenance and support of an existing corporate HR and payroll system for Belfast City Council to include moving from an on premise solution to a cloud based solution will be awarded to Zellis UK Limited to guarantee continued maintenance and support of the existing system. The existing corporate HR and Payroll system is software owned by Zellis UK Limited, Zellis UK Limited are the sole company who can maintain and support the corporate HR and payroll system.