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The Provision of the Educational Management Information System

Outwood Grange Academies Trust · compiled

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Opportunity overview

Outwood Grange Academies Trust ("Outwood") intends to award a contract for the provision of its educational management system ("MIS").

Awarded to

Amounts belong to published awards or contracts. Where several suppliers share one value, it is labelled as shared and is not a supplier-specific allocation.

Contract value
£2.2m
Awarded
Not supplied
Contract signed
1 Apr 2025
Award ID
013273-2025-1
Status
active
Identifier
GB-COH 07790198
Location
London, UK, United Kingdom

Classification

  • CPV48190000 — Educational software package

Lots

  • Outwood's requirement is to have one unified MIS across all of the trusts family of schools to simplify processes and to increase operating efficiency, reduce costs and streamline the user experience. By moving to a more modern cloud based MIS solution, Outwood will drastically reduce the number of individual systems and therefore logins that staff have to use. This migration to a unified system will also help in reducing costs associated with running multiple different operating platforms. The intention is to also remove the additional costs associated with the MIS provision as part of this activity once the current contract expires. Outwood requires an established provider that can incorporate the additional features it requires as part of standard functionality. Outwoods intention is to migrate to the MIS operator that offers the highest level of compatibility to the current systems that the trust operate at the best value. This would ensure the most advantageous offering which looks to reduce migration impact to the schools and system users, reduces the costs in redeveloping systems in use and minimise costs and time involved in the need to retrain staff across the trust.Value not stated

Published notice details

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Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
ocds-h6vhtk-04fdc5
Status
complete
Procurement Method
limited
Main Procurement Category
goods
Procurement Method Details
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Why this procedure was chosen
The intention is to use the KCS Education Management Systems framework agreement Y20024 direct award. Outwood identified the requirement for the new MIS to be that which provides the most compatible connectivity to the range of internal and external systems being used across all of the schools. The most advantageous offer is delivered by Arbor and therefore the decision has been made to award the contract by way of direct award under the framework to Arbor.

Legal basis

Id
32014L0024
Scheme
CELEX

Classification

Id
48190000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Educational software package

Procedure reasons

Entry 1
Id
D_OUTSIDE_SCOPE
Scheme
TED_PT_AWARD_CONTRACT_WITHOUT_CALL
Description
The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Has Options
Yes
Description
Outwood's requirement is to have one unified MIS across all of the trusts family of schools to simplify processes and to increase operating efficiency, reduce costs and streamline the user experience. By moving to a more modern cloud based MIS solution, Outwood will drastically reduce the number of individual systems and therefore logins that staff have to use. This migration to a unified system will also help in reducing costs associated with running multiple different operating platforms. The intention is to also remove the additional costs associated with the MIS provision as part of this activity once the current contract expires. Outwood requires an established provider that can incorporate the additional features it requires as part of standard functionality. Outwoods intention is to migrate to the MIS operator that offers the highest level of compatibility to the current systems that the trust operate at the best value. This would ensure the most advantageous offering which looks to reduce migration impact to the schools and system users, reduces the costs in redeveloping systems in use and minimise costs and time involved in the need to retrain staff across the trust.

Options

Description
This can be extended through further direct award at the end of the initial agreement through a suitable compliant framework agreement.

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKC
Entry 2
Region
UKD
Entry 3
Region
UKE
Entry 4
Region
UKF

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Id
GB-COH-06995649
Name
Outwood Grange Academies Trust

Roles

buyer

Address

Region
UKE45
Locality
Wakefield
Postal Code
WF12PF
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Potovens Lane

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Id
BODY_PUBLIC
Scheme
TED_CA_TYPE
Description
Body governed by public law
Entry 2
Id
09
Scheme
COFOG
Description
Education

Identifier

Id
06995649
Scheme
GB-COH
Legal Name
Outwood Grange Academies Trust

Contact

Name
Suzi Richards
Telephone
+44 7989177767
Organisation 2
Id
GB-COH-07790198
Name
Arbor Education Partners Limited

Roles

supplier

Address

Region
UK
Locality
London
Country Name
United Kingdom

Details

Scale
large

Identifier

Id
07790198
Scheme
GB-COH
Legal Name
Arbor Education Partners Limited
Organisation 3
Id
GB-FTS-525
Name
High Court

Roles

reviewBody

Address

Locality
London
Country Name
United Kingdom

Identifier

Legal Name
High Court

Award information

Award 1
Id
013273-2025-1
Status
active

Suppliers

Supplier 1
Id
GB-COH-07790198
Name
Arbor Education Partners Limited

Related lots

1

Contracts and changes

Entry 1
Id
013273-2025-1
Status
active
Award ID
013273-2025-1
Date Signed
2 Apr 2025, 00:00

Value

Amount
2,181,084.61
Currency
GBP

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Wakefield · UKE45 · WF12PF · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKC
  • Delivery location · UKD
  • Delivery location · UKE
  • Delivery location · UKF

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

1 VERSION
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