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WM Placement Portal Replacement Soft Market Sounding Exercise

IT services: consulting
software development
Internet and support
West Midlands (UKG)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Birmingham City Council: "WM Placement Portal Replacement Soft Market Sounding Exercise". Published status: planned. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityBirmingham City CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planned
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Birmingham City Council
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Published history for Birmingham City Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
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Competition Density
3Bids / Report
0% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
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Payment Terms
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Coverage: 2 active published awards; 1 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityBirmingham City Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanned
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published2 Mar 2021, 14:08 GMT
Last source update2 Mar 2021, 14:08 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationIT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-029791
What is being bought
The Birmingham City Council (BCC) though this market testing exercise is looking for supplier(s) who can provide the council with a secure online portal for Child Care Placement service. The purpose of this Soft Market Testing Exercise is to gain a better understanding of what solutions are available in the market that could provide a viable alternative or enhancement to the Council's current online portal and to support BCC in development a specification. The questionnaire provided in the Soft Market Testing pack includes a range of BCC services and transactions type, some of which are available through existing online portal. Birmingham City Council has also provided a few general high-level functional requirements that the existing online account solution provides, plus several high-level technical requirements. Suppliers are asked to rate their own offerings in relation to these. If you are interested in tendering, please click on the following link to access Birmingham City Council's tender portal, detail on how to register on the e-tender portal is below.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to planned
    2 Mar 2021, 14:08 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    2 Mar 2021, 14:08 GMT
  3. Buyer information updated
    2 Mar 2021, 14:08 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planned
    Published valueNot published
    Birmingham City Council (BCC) is working with West Midlands Children's Services (a collaborative of 14 Local Authorities (LA's) and Children's Trusts (Trusts)) to undertake Soft Market testing exercise for a web-based IT solution that provides a single portal for use by all 14 LA's and Trusts that enables brokerage of services and placements searches across a number of frameworks. The West Midlands Local Authorities & Trusts include Birmingham Children's Trust, Coventry City Council, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, Herefordshire Council, Sandwell Children's Trust, Shropshire County Council, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, Staffordshire County Council, Stoke-On-Trent City Council, Borough of Telford & Wrekin , Walsall Council, Warwickshire County Council, Wolverhampton City Council and Worcestershire Children First. There are approx. 200 staff from commissioning and placements teams across the 14 LAs and Trusts that are registered users of the current system and around 800 providers. This is subject to change as new frameworks are added. The existing system is due to expire in 2022 and we are interested to learn about innovative ideas and potential future solutions for its replacement. To take part in the Soft Market Testing exercise, please visit our etendering portal at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamc The BCC would very much like to hear from a range of different suppliers to the market. Both service and product options are of interest.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    2 Mar 2021, 14:08 GMT
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Birmingham City Council

Contracting authority GB-FTS-6367
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