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Published 25 Feb 2026, 12:41 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

The provision of Unit4 Business World - Legacy Data Archiving & Access Solution

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Leicester City Council (Local council)

GoodsBelow thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Software Packages & ERP (48) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£1pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 15 Feb 2027from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 24 Feb 2031 · up to 24 Feb 2034 with extensions · starts 25 Feb 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Council is currently implementing Unit4 ERP Cloud and will be decommissioning its existing Unit4 Business World (on-premise) environment. As part of this transition, not all historic data will be migrated to the new cloud ERP solution. The Council therefore requires a secure and sustainable approach to retaining, accessing and managing legacy Unit4 Business World data for statutory, audit, financial reporting, Freedom of Information and investigative purposes.

CPV: Software package and information systems

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 4 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 25 Feb 2027 – 24 Feb 2031 (4 yrs) · up to 24 Feb 2034 with extensions
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published
48000000 Software package and information systems

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Leicester City Council buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up

Leicester City 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: Software package and information systems (CPV 48) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerLeicester City Council · division 48
The marketSoftware package and information systems (CPV 48) · UK-wide
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 6 of 14 known-size awards · market: division 48 · UK-wide, n=2,275
43%31%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 7 of 20 known-location awards · market: division 48 · UK-wide, n=2,054
35%28%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 16 decided notices · market: division 48 · UK-wide, n=243
78 days62 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 78 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 5 of 24 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 48 · UK-wide, n=3,612
21%66%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer20 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 48
5% had one bid
The market379 lots with bid counts · division 48 · UK-wide
15% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid5% / 15%
Buyer: 1 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 58 of 379 lots with published bid counts.
2–365% / 31%
Buyer: 13 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 118 of 379 lots with published bid counts.
4–630% / 32%
Buyer: 6 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 120 of 379 lots with published bid counts.
7+0% / 22%
Buyer: 0 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 83 of 379 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer13 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 48
46% below estimate
The market230 lots with estimate and award · division 48 · UK-wide
55% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate46% / 55%
Buyer: 6 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 126 of 230 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%8% / 25%
Buyer: 1 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 57 of 230 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate46% / 20%
Buyer: 6 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 47 of 230 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 4848 monthsSME suitableNo real estimate

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 48. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
i

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 379 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet15% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 379 similar lots
1 bid15%
58 of 379 similar past lots received 1 bid (15%).
2–331%
118 of 379 similar past lots received 2–3 (31%).
4–632%
120 of 379 similar past lots received 4–6 (32%).
7+22%
83 of 379 similar past lots received 7+ (22%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No real estimate
The buyer published £1 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
BibliothecaEarlier contractProvision of Self Service Solution (LOT 1) and Self Access Solution (LOT 2)notice published May 2021—£275kMatched as the earlier contract

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.

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
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
25 Feb 2026, 12:41 GMT
Last source update
25 Feb 2026, 12:41 GMT
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-016866
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Software package and information systems
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065bfa Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

25 Feb 2026 → 25 Feb 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published242 days ago
    25 Feb 2026, 12:41 GMT
  2. Market engagement229 days ago
    10 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Please note this is a Preliminary Market Engagement, it is not a formal invitation to tender.

    Suppliers must complete the questionnaire and submit their responses by Tuesday 10th March 2026.

    To enhance our understanding of the solutions currently available in the market and in addition to the submitted questionnaire, we may invite suitable suppliers who meet the essential requirements identified in the PME document to deliver an overview presentation of their solution and its functionality.

    To access the questionnaire please follow this link:

    procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗

  3. Today
    25 Oct 2026
  4. Tender notice expectedin 113 days
    15 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 122 days
    25 Feb 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    25 Feb 2026, 12:41 GMT
    UK2

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

Leicester City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PXRT-5737-VBQD City Hall (4th Floor), Leicester, East Midlands, LE1 1FZContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure