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AwardedAwarded 22 May 2026

ACE - Provision of Integrated HR and Payroll System

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

In brief

The Academies for Character and Excellence awarded recruitment and IT and software work to Juniper Education Services Limited on 22 May 2026.

The notice gives a value of £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 required 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 was 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 required a solution that enables this without system replacement or material disruption.

Who won

WinnerValueDates
Juniper Education Services Limited (SME)
7 bids received
£450,000
Awarded 7 May 2026
1 September 2026 to 31 August 2030

Values as the award notice gives them, excluding VAT where stated.

Timeline

  1. Preliminary market engagement notice · UK2, notice 005644-2026
  2. Tender notice · UK4, notice 016036-2026
  3. Contract award notice · UK6, notice 042491-2026
  4. Contract details notice · UK7, notice 048384-2026

Last time this was bought

ACE - Provision of Financial Management System

Awarded
14 May 2026
Value
£250,000
Bids
14
Contract ends
13 May 2030

Matched on The Academies for Character and Excellence, the type of work and the title; it may be a related contract rather than the same one. Check the notice to be sure.

About the buyer

The Academies for Character and ExcellenceLast 12 months

Procurements

3

Awards

2

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From notice 005644-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 22 January 2026, last updated 26 May 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.