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The Provision of the Educational Management Information System

Outwood Grange Academies Trust

Buyer Contact Info

Buyer Name: Outwood Grange Academies Trust

Buyer Address: Potovens Lane, Wakefield, UKE45, WF12PF, United Kingdom

Contact Name: Suzi Richards

Contact Email: s.richards@outwood.com

Contact Telephone: +44 7989177767

Status
complete
Procedure
limited
Value
2181084.61 GBP
Published
07 Apr 2025, 08:08
Deadline
n/a
Contract Start
n/a
Contract End
n/a
Category
goods
CPV
48190000 - Educational software package
Region
n/a
Awarded To
Arbor Education Partners Limited
Official Source
Open Find a Tender

Description

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

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Opportunity Context

Lots

Lot 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.

Lot 1 Has Options: Yes

Lot 1 Options: This can be extended through further direct award at the end of the initial agreement through a suitable compliant framework agreement.

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