Placement Portal Replacement - Soft Market Sounding Exercise

Birmingham City Council (BCC) is working with West Midlands Childrens Services (a collaborative of 14 Local Authorities and Children's Trusts) to undertake Soft Market testing for a web-based IT solution that enables brokerage of services and placements searches across a number of frameworks. The existing system is due to expire in 2021 and we are interested to learn about innovative ideas and solutions as an enhancement on the current system. This soft market sounding may be of interest to suppliers of relevant IT products and services.

For those potential suppliers of IT products and services, this soft market sounding is an opportunity to:

For Birmingham City Council, the purpose of this soft market sounding is to:

Please read the document and if you feel that your organisation is able to contribute to this soft market sounding exercise please complete the requirements questionnaire, along with a solution overview and itemised price list and submit it via the In-Tend portal https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc by 5:00pm on the 15th January 2021.

Registration on In-Tend is free. The system is secure and access to the clarifications will only be made available to those employees of the Council, and/or their authorised advisers in respect of this soft market sounding request. If you are unable to register with In-Tend please either email us at cps@birmingham.gov.uk or call 0121 464 8000.

If you are interested in responding please click on the following link to access the Council's portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc/ and submit your details to register your interest. We will send you a username and password so you can download the documentation.

Please note that this is not a call for competition.