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ACL Management Information System

Essex County Council · Local authority

In brief

Essex County Council has announced plans to buy IT and software work. This is an early notice: there is nothing to bid on yet, but it tells you a tender may follow.

The notice does not state a value.

The contract runs for 3 years, up to 4 years with extensions, starting 30 March 2027.

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

Can I win this?

Competition

Typical: a median of 5 bids per contract for this buyer (from 46 awards in the last 12 months).

What the notice says

Essex Adult Community Learning (ACL) are seeking a comprehensive Management Information System tool to support the Council's ongoing ACL Transformation and Refresh programme. Essex ACL is undertaking this Preliminary market engagement notice (PME) to engage with potential suppliers to understand market capability and available solutions to help develop to Essex ACL's identified requirements and inform the procurement strategy. ACL is looking to understand more about the MIS tools that can provide the following outcomes: • Enhance learner tracking and performance • Adhere to DfE mandatory compliance checks and be auditable • Real time updates to allow rapid inclusion of new learners • Integrated reporting function built in to solution • Options for current and future integration with other ACL tools i.e. Scheduling • Up to date and user friendly interface for staff • Option for self registration by learners • Updated technology (current solution is 10 plus years old) Contract Dates (Estimated): The current contract expires 30th Sep 2027. We would require a period of parallel running to ensure quality so would look to ensuring at least 6 months overlap i.e. contract start of 30th March 2027. NB This would depend on Implementation length. Ideally we would like a 3+1 contract length.

How to bid

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  3. Follow the submission instructions in the notice; it does not name an e-tendering portal.

Timeline

  1. Preliminary market engagement notice · UK2, notice 047092-2026
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice · UK2, notice 057744-2026

About the buyer

Essex County CouncilLast 12 months

Procurements

136

Awards

78

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From notice 047092-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 21 May 2026, last updated 18 June 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.