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Enterprise Architecture Transformation Tool

Essex County Council · Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

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Opportunity overview

Essex County Council (ECC) are seeking a comprehensive Enterprise Architecture Transformation Tool to support the Council's ongoing Local Government Reorganisation journey. ECC is undertaking this Preliminary market engagement notice (PME) to engage with potential suppliers to understand market capability and available solutions to help develop the Authority's requirements and inform the procurement strategy. ECC is looking to understand more about tools that can provide the following outcomes: • Help manage and simplify the complexities of our transformation, guiding robust decision-making around investment priorities. • Deliver actionable insights for Operations, Products, Cyber, and Functional Services teams, underpinned by measurable Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that track the business maturity, resilience, user outcomes, and service performance. • Enable the enterprise architecture to clearly demonstrate value, inform and justify decisions to enhance services, reduce organisational risk, and improve the experience for users. • Integrate seamlessly with ECC's existing digital platforms and services across multiple tenancies, handle large volumes of data, and provide outputs that are accessible and useful for officers at all levels within the council. • Offer a maturity model that has proven effective in other local government authorities, to support ECC throughout this significant transformation. • Assess and map the digital and data assets across the Essex region. • Support the consolidation and rationalisation of the digital applications and contracts to achieve greater efficiency. • Provide visibility into known and unknown areas, with the ability to prioritise and rank risks, thereby strengthening decision-making. In summary, ECC require a mature, proven tool that will not only enable it to govern and improve its transformation journey, but also drive business value, mitigate risks, and deliver measurable outcomes for teams and communities. ECC is in its earliest stages of generating requirements and therefore for any future potential procurement opportunity for an Enterprise Architecture Transformation Tool, it is anticipated that requirements, scope and timelines will be refined/amended following PME. Therefore, there is no commitment or guarantee that procurement activity will go ahead.

Classification

  • CPV48451000 — Enterprise resource planning software package
  • CPV72212451 — Enterprise resource planning software development services

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
D103PA
Main Procurement Category
services
Status
planning

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Has Renewal
Yes
Status
planning

Suitability

Sme
Yes

Contract period

Starts
1 Sept 2026, 00:00
Ends
1 Sept 2028, 23:59
Max Extent Date
1 Sept 2029, 23:59

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
CPV
Id
48451000
Description
Enterprise resource planning software package
Entry 2
Scheme
CPV
Id
72212451
Description
Enterprise resource planning software development services

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKH3
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Planning and budget

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
engagement
Type
engagement
Description
Essex County Council (ECC) is looking to procure an Enterprise Architecture Transformation Tool and is undertaking this preliminary market engagement notice (PME) to inform and refine its procurement strategy. This exercise is designed to engage with potential suppliers to understand market capability and available solutions, to help develop ECC's requirements and shape the procurement strategy as well as identifying potential suppliers. ECC are inviting interested suppliers that are capable of providing an Enterprise Architecture Transformation Tool to complete a questionnaire via the following Microsoft forms link: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=TzK0qFwVFUKg8X7YzJqZL_NQttUmjkZGpRuzAQaQEptUQUJVUFlKWVU2Q0VYRDhNRllGMVlSTTZDWS4u Responses are to be submitted by 17th April 2026 at 5pm. If you are having any issues with the link, please reach out via email. Following review of responses, ECC may reach out to interested suppliers to organise demos or for further discussion. If demos are to be arranged, they will be held via teams or on site at County Hall, Market Road, Chelmsford, CM1 1QH. Please note this PME notice/request for information is not intended as a call for competition and as such you will need to express your interest in any potential future tender opportunity. Responding to this PME does not constitute a tender submission, a quotation, or any binding commitment to procure these services. Please note there is no commitment or guarantee that procurement activity will go ahead. Participation is voluntary and will neither benefit nor disadvantage any supplier in any potential future procurement opportunity. Responses to the questionnaire will be treated confidentially.
Due
17 Apr 2026, 23:59
Status
scheduled

Documents

Entry 1
Id
026058-2026
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Published
23 Mar 2026, 09:13
Format
text/html

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Name
Essex County Council
Id
GB-PPON-PWVM-4844-NRQH

Identifier

Scheme
GB-PPON
Id
PWVM-4844-NRQH

Address

Street Address
County Hall, Market Road
Locality
Chelmsford
Postal Code
CM1 1QH
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKH36

Contact

Roles

buyer

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Id
publicAuthoritySubCentralGovernment
Description
Public authority - sub-central government

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Chelmsford · UKH36 · CM1 1QH · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKH3 · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

1 VERSION
  1. 026058-2026Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ·