Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 24 Oct 2025, 15:54 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Software Licenses for Schools and Academies

Official notice

Authority: Crescent Purchasing Consortium Limited (Public body)

GoodsAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Software Packages & ERP (48) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£12,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 5 Jan 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 14 Jul 2028 · up to 14 Jul 2030 with extensions · starts 15 Jul 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This is an information gathering exercise named Preliminary Market Engagement. The purpose of this exercise is to gather information from suppliers who provide Software Licenses & Associated Services for Academies and Schools, outlined within the document available on Multiquote, to assist in forming the framework to meet the members requirement.

We are looking to review the lot structure of the framework and engage with potential suppliers to create a proposed basket of goods to meet our varying member’s needs.

Following this, we aim to go out to tender, to form a framework that offers Software Licenses & Associated Services for Academies and Schools to the education sector

Please complete the questionnaire along with the Preliminary Market Engagement Declaration. Details are available via MultiQuote: suppliers.multiquote.com ↗. MultiQuote reference CA16627

Any resulting framework from this exercise will be available to Further Education Institutions, Universities, Sixth Forms, Academies, Schools, Museums and other similar organisations who are CPC Members (www.thecpc.ac.uk/members/regions.php ↗) and all CPC future members (www.gov.uk/guidance/get-informa… ↗). Local Authorities may also wish to use the resulting framework when procuring on behalf of Educational Establishments.

If you wish to be involved in this Preliminary Market Engagement, please complete the questionnaire and sign and return the embedded Preliminary Market Declaration document by 11.59pm on 20th November 2025. MultiQuote reference CA16627

CPV: Software package suites

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 2 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 15 Jul 2026 – 14 Jul 2028 (2 yrs) · up to 14 Jul 2030 with extensions
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
24 Oct 2025, 15:54 BST
Last source update
24 Oct 2025, 15:54 BST
Authority reference
CA16627
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-068300
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Software package suites
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d39d Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

24 Oct 2025 → 15 Jul 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published367 days ago
    24 Oct 2025, 15:54 BST
  2. Market engagement340 days ago
    20 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT

    Engagement

  3. Tender notice expected294 days ago
    5 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract starts104 days ago
    15 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    24 Oct 2025, 15:54 BST
    UK2

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Crescent Purchasing Consortium Limited

Contracting authorityPublic undertaking GB-PPON: PZPR-8554-XHNX Procurement House, Leslie Hough Way, Salford, North West, M6 6AJContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure