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

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Opportunity overview

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.

Classification

  • CPV48190000 — Educational software package
  • CPV48931000 — Training software package
  • CPV80420000 — E-learning 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
PL24/139
Main Procurement Category
services
Above Threshold
Yes
Status
planning

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Has Renewal
Yes
Status
planning

Suitability

Sme
Yes
Vcse
Yes

Contract period

Starts
1 Oct 2026, 01:00
Ends
30 Sept 2029, 23:59
Max Extent Date
30 Sept 2031, 23:59

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
CPV
Id
80420000
Description
E-learning services
Entry 2
Scheme
CPV
Id
48931000
Description
Training software package
Entry 3
Scheme
CPV
Id
48190000
Description
Educational software package

Planning and budget

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
engagement
Type
engagement
Description
Pre Market Engagement invitation and questionnaire documents are available via the Panacea e-tendering portal. Those wishing to reply to this questionnaire should complete the Pre-Market-Engagement-Questionnaire and respond via Panacea by 12:00 noon, Monday 8th June 2026. No other documentation is required to be completed or returned at this stage. The link to our public Tenders, Research and Contracts site is https://app.panacea-software.com/lcc/eRFX-Public/ResearchOpportunities.aspx
Due
8 Jun 2026, 23:59
Status
scheduled

Documents

Entry 1
Id
043301-2026
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Published
12 May 2026, 09:23
Format
text/html

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Name
Lincolnshire County Council
Id
GB-PPON-PGRB-3736-CHZN

Identifier

Scheme
GB-PPON
Id
PGRB-3736-CHZN

Address

Street Address
County Offices, Newland
Locality
Lincoln
Postal Code
LN1 1YL
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKF30

Contact

Roles

buyer

Details

Classifications

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

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Lincoln · UKF30 · LN1 1YL · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

1 VERSION
  1. 043301-2026Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ·