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Bracknell Forest Borough Council

Services to Schools Traded Services Management System

IT ServicesCPV 48000000
Value£42k
Deadline29 Aug 2026
Published17 Aug 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 17 Aug 202610 days leftCloses 29 Aug 2026
Who to contact
Richard Skegg
richard.skegg@bracknell-forest.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£42ktotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

This sits below the typical range for IT Services contracts — a smaller, more accessible award. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

Bracknell Forest Borough Council publishes IT Services work continuously — 7 notices, roughly one every 43 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

47% of Bracknell Forest Borough Council’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

Bracknell Forest Council requires an online system to manage traded services to schools.

This system enables the council to administer, track and invoice all traded services to maintained schools and academies

What it takes to bid this

59 daysof bid-team effort
£3.4k£6.2kat typical UK bid-team rates
Compressed window — start the same week

Typical UK bid effort for the under £100k band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidCyber Essentials Plus (often mandatory for gov IT)
  • Hold at bidISO 27001 (information security)
  • Plan for deliveryData protection / DPIA readiness
  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e545
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
077966-2026
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