Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-11-06
Buyer: East Sussex County Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 48400000 | 48440000 | 48442000 | 48443000 | 48450000

Technical requirements: The Council has a requirement to replace our back-office systems including HR, finance and procurement. The Council currently use a single system, SAP R3, to cover these areas but the Council is open to exploring both single systems and ‘Best of Breed’ to deliver our requirements. The Council would like to receive expressions of interest from a cross section of the market, including technology vendors (software providers), implementation partners and system integrators to help refine our requirements. The Council will be holding a supplier engagement event on the 6.12.2019 to inform the forthcoming procurement. The Council aim to start the procurement in May 2020.
Further information will be released in November via the Council’s e-tendering portal, https://www.sesharedservices.org.uk/esourcing/opportunities to providers who express an interest in this opportunity. There will be a supplier day on the 6.12.2019, please register your interest in attending via this e-tendering portal. The Procurement route has not been finalised and the Council’s requirements may be split into lots.
ESCC will be holding a supplier day on the 6.12.2019 at County Hall, St Annes Crescent, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1UE. In order to register your interest in attending please go to our e-tendering and opportunities portal (details below). You are required to register your interest in the opportunity via the portal Correspondence facility, the deadline for registering an interest in attending the Supplier Day is 22.11.2019. Supporting information including scope and high level business requirements will be made available via this portal for suppliers confirming attendance to review before attending the supplier day. Please do not send marketing and sales materials to the Council as at this point we are unable to read them. The ability of suppliers to bid for this opportunity is not affected by attendance or non-attendance at the supplier day should the Council proceed with a formal procurement process at some future time. This is not a call for competition, a separate contract notice will be published when a procurement procedure commences. The information given in this notice is only demonstrative of current arrangements and provided in order for interested organisations to understand the potential scope. Further information is available using the SE Shared Service Procurement eSourcing portal, https://www.sesharedservices.org.uk/esourcing/opportunities
Please search for ESCC JS Modernising Back Office Support. The SE Shared Services eSourcing portal provides a web-based tool for a simple, secure and efficient means for managing tendering and quotation activities, reducing the time and effort required for both buyers and potential bidders. The portal allows for tender clarifications and submitting your bid electronically. In order to bid for the opportunity you will need to register your company on the SE Shared Services Portal.