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Lincolnshire County Council · Local authority

In brief

Lincolnshire County Council has announced plans to buy training and 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 estimated value is £375,000 excluding VAT.

The contract runs for 3 years, up to 5 years with extensions, starting 1 October 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.

Can I win this?

Competition

Typical: a median of 5 bids per contract for this buyer (from 47 awards in the last 12 months).

What the notice says

Lincolnshire County Council (LCC, “the Council”) is embarking on a significant and forward looking programme, exploring next generation online learning and staff development platforms. The Council sees this solution as playing a central role in modernising how training is delivered and managed across the organisation, strengthening our capability to support staff in their professional development while ensuring full compliance with statutory obligations and reporting requirements. This market engagement is intended to: - Bring awareness to the market of an upcoming opportunity. - Assist in refining requirements and ensure clarity of specification. - Assess availability of solutions and…Read the full description
Lincolnshire County Council (LCC, “the Council”) is embarking on a significant and forward looking programme, exploring next generation online learning and staff development platforms. The Council sees this solution as playing a central role in modernising how training is delivered and managed across the organisation, strengthening our capability to support staff in their professional development while ensuring full compliance with statutory obligations and reporting requirements. This market engagement is intended to: - Bring awareness to the market of an upcoming opportunity. - Assist in refining requirements and ensure clarity of specification. - Assess availability of solutions and interest in the market. - Gain awareness of innovations in the market. - Understand any constraints. - Ensure suitability of procurement process and contractual terms. We are keen to collaborate with forward thinking suppliers who share our vision for a modern, flexible, scalable, and secure solution. We invite you to bring your insight, expertise, and creativity to help shape a platform that will not only elevate our internal learning and development offer but also enhance the experience of thousands of external users delivering vital services for the residents of Lincolnshire. Our high-level objectives are to: - Deliver savings through rationalisation of several incumbent learning related solutions, and the flexibility and scalability to encompass future known / unknown risks, such as further solution rationalisation opportunities that present themselves as the result of Local Government Reorganisation; - Provide a single, reliable centralised learning content repository with training records and compliance management; - A fit for purpose platform that supports the LCC People Strategy in developing the workforce with the right skills and knowledge for the future. - Foster better engagement with improved learner experience, to users both internal and external to LCC, including informal, self-directed learning pathways and provision of mobile-friendly interfaces, accessible across a range of devices; - Improved management capabilities and organisation compliance through progress tracking, dashboards, analytics and reporting; - Take advantage of a SaaS model, where the solution is continuously updated and maintained by the Supplier, ensuring scalability, security, and access to new functionality; - Reduce administrative effort via automation and integrations, such as HR systems, Fire and Rescue, identity management, SSO, email and other enterprise systems such as Microsoft Teams; - Maintain information security and data protection through appropriate data security, role-based access controls, and GDPR-compliant data handling; and - Procure an innovative solution through a Procurement Act 2023 compliant open procedure with clear, proportionate, outcome-based requirements.

How to bid

  1. Read the full notice on Find a Tender, including any tender documents it links to.
  2. Register your organisation on the Central Digital Platform (through Find a Tender) if you have not already. Suppliers need to be registered to take part in procurements under the Procurement Act 2023.
  3. Follow the submission instructions in the notice; it does not name an e-tendering portal.

Timeline

  1. Preliminary market engagement notice · UK2, notice 043301-2026

About the buyer

Procurements

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Awards

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From notice 043301-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 12 May 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.