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Scheduling Tool

Upcoming United Kingdom IT services

Buyer Essex County Council

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Summary

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Essex Adult Community Learning (ACL) is running a Preliminary Market Engagement ahead of procuring a Scheduling Tool. The solution should offer a comprehensive scheduling, timetabling and resource management platform, enabling efficient planning of courses, tutors, rooms and resources across multiple delivery locations. It must integrate with the organisation's MIS and its Microsoft 365 environment and support funding compliance, learner communication and management reporting. The current exercise aims to understand market capability and available solutions meeting ACL's identified requirements, and to inform the procurement strategy.

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Description

Essex Adult Community Learning (ACL) are seeking to procure a Scheduling Tool. The solution must provide a comprehensive scheduling, timetabling and resource management platform for ACL, enabling efficient planning of courses, tutors, rooms and resources across multiple delivery locations. The solution will need to integrate with the organisation's MIS and Microsoft 365 environment, supporting funding compliance, learner communication and management reporting. Essex ACL is undertaking this Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) to understand market capability & available solutions which meet ACL's identified requirements & inform the procurement strategy.

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Market

IT services in United Kingdom

median open notice
€504,000
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Market context

open now in IT services
3,355
median open notice
€504,000

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · IT services

different companies won awards here
758
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
11%
buyers awarded contracts here
412

Based on 1,393 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

The buyer in figures

Essex County Council

notices in the register
87
awards
64
awarded in total
€80.4M

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
53
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
13%
of its calls state an estimated value
97%

Based on 60 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

Essex County Council

United Kingdom

Who usually wins this buyer's contracts in this sector

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
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Gartner UK Limited 1 €170,301 Jul 2026
WeChange.AI Limited 1 €57,253 Aug 2026

Based on 3 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.

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