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ACE - Provision of Integrated HR & Payroll System

The Academies for Character and Excellence · Local or regional public body

In brief

The Academies for Character and Excellence was looking for suppliers for recruitment and IT and software work. Bidding has closed and no award has been published yet.

The estimated value is £450,000 excluding VAT.

The contract runs for 4 years, up to 6 years with extensions, starting 1 September 2026.

The buyer says it is suitable for small and medium-sized businesses.

Built from the notice's own fields. Always check the official notice before you bid.

What the notice says

Trust requires a fully integrated HR and Payroll platform operating from a single, authoritative dataset. The solution must enable compliant payroll and workforce administration in accordance with relevant legislation, HMRC requirements, Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) and Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) regulations, statutory employment obligations, and sector best practice. It must also provide the transparency, reporting capability, and internal controls necessary to support efficient Trust-wide operations. The Trust is seeking a platform that provides operational flexibility, allowing payroll processing to be delivered either in-house or via a managed service within the same system environment. The Trust may transition between these delivery models during the contract term and therefore requires a solution that enables this without system replacement or material disruption.

Timeline

  1. Preliminary market engagement notice · UK2, notice 005644-2026
  2. Tender notice · UK4, notice 016036-2026

About the buyer

From notice 005644-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 22 January 2026, last updated 23 February 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.