RFP QuestBeta
Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Northern Lighthouse Board

E-Procurement Portal

Software & IT SystemsCPV 48490000
Value£84k
Awarded30 Sept 2025
Published26 Jan 2026
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£84ktotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£1.1m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Software & IT Systems band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 30,286 valued Software & IT Systems tenders in our corpus.

The brief

• A web based eSourcing solution provided on a Software as a Service (Saas) basis, that supports effective and efficient tendering and contract/supplier management. • The solution provided must be fully compliant with PCR2015, and compliant with all aspects of PA23 which can Publish direct to, Central Digital Platform, Find a Tender and Contracts Finder buyer portals. • The ability to complete an online tendering and sourcing exercise with a Selection Questionnaire (SQ), Request for Information (RFI), Invitation to Tender (ITT), Invitation to Quote (ITQ) then complete the tendering exercise to award, and the publication of an award notice. • Plan and execute complex procurement projects, multi-Lots, with multiple users to build the tender exercise. • An online supplier database, to allow the ability to interact with a network of registered suppliers.

Giving the opportunity to identify suppliers as part of a market scoping exercise or to invite to a mini-competition or request for quotation. • Ability to allow Awarding Authority to work in a collaborative manner with third party partners, i.e. allow NLB to invite evaluators from other organisations.

Evaluation • The ability to complete auto-score online questionnaires for online evaluations, in a side by side evaluation. • Create tendering work areas, to assign internal and external roles and to allow a team to work collaboratively with other departments and buying organisations to complete complex multi lot evaluations. • An evaluation process that is secure, and auditable with an activity log, and the ability to separate users to different elements of the evaluation process and exercise.

Contract Management • The ability to register contracts within a Contracts Register at the award stage, set reminders, record performance and track changes • A fully accessible and easily downloaded Contracts Register • An online dashboard to easily analyse contract and supplier details.

Provide an overview on number of open contracts and their suppliers.

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Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The solution provided must be fully compliant

The solution provided must be fully compliant with PCR2015, and compliant with all aspects of PA23 which can Publish direct to, Central Digital Platform, Find a Tender and Contracts Finder buyer portals.

02

Provide an overview on number of open

Provide an overview on number of open contracts and their suppliers.

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Source & provenance
OCID
efa5240c-a7cb-4ddb-a646-2722efdc4497
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
FACS/EPRO/2506
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