Provision of a Teacher Professional Learning System

the Education Authority

Key Details

Estimated Value

£13,500,000

Deadline

2 September 2026

Contract Period

Not specified

Procurement Method

selective

Key requirements

Extracted from the notice; check the official documents.

Tender deadline: 2 Sept 2026, 15:00
Clarification questions by: 21 Aug 2026, 15:00
Estimated value: £13.5m£16.2m including VAT
Contract period: 12 Oct 2026 to 9 Oct 2031 (5 years)
Renewal / extension: EA’s intention is to award the contract to one supplier for a five-year period with the possibility of extension for two years + two years + one year. Suppliers should note that the Business Case for this project is sti…
Options: EA reserves the right to add additional users such as EA Corporate staff throughout the lifetime of the Contract. No guarantees of taking up this option are given. Any extension and/or options will require further Busin…
Procedure: Competitive flexible procedure
Legal basis: Procurement Act 2023
CPV codes: 72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support; 48000000 Software package and information systems; 48100000 Industry specific software package; 72200000 Software programming and consultancy services; 72210000 Programming services of packaged software products; 72211000 Programming services of systems and user software and 4 more
Suitability (buyer's flag): SME-suitable
Submission method: Electronic submission allowed

Award criteria

Award Criteria - Quality (quality)60%
Award Criteria - Cost (cost)40%

How to respond

Tender must be submitted electronically via the following; https://etendersni.gov.uk/

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Description

The Education Authority is inviting tenders for the purpose of establishing a contract for the supply/provision of a Teacher Professional Learning System (TPL) System for: • Schools • Teaching Staff • EA Teacher Professional Learning Provision • External Educational Stakeholders • Approved TPL 3rd party providers The Contract is for a period of 5 Years with the possibility of extension for 2 years + 2 years + 1 year The EdIS Programme is a significant programme of work taking place to procure and implement systems and services for the Education Authority and schools. This project is being taken forward as part of the implementation of the Department's TransformED Strategy under separate business case and funding cover to the EdIS Programme. EA’s intention is to award the contract to one supplier for a five-year period with the possibility of extension for two years + two years + one year.

Suitability

SME Suitable

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Publication Info

Published24 July 2026

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