Education Management Information Solution (EMIS)

Tender description

The Purpose of the Prior Information Notice (PIN) is to advise and engage with the Market for an Education Management Information Solution for Caerphilly County Borough Council. Lot 1: The Council is seeking to engage with and carry pre market engagement for an Education Management Information Solution to meet the following requirements:- Supports integration or import of data from existing council and LA software including IDP files, SIMS (and other school MIS systems) and inter-authority Admission files Is cloud hosted Ability to integrate securely with each individual authorities ‘customer account’ using Single Sign on Solution Integrates with Microsoft 365 applications The ability to automate archiving and deletion of records for data protection requirements Portal facility for parents/guardians to apply for school & early years’ applications places, transport, FSM Portal facility with schools for sharing information and managing processes such as exclusions. GIS Functionality for Admissions processes Ability to design portals for seamless transition and branding from LA website to the application portals for Admissions, Transport and FSM – English and Welsh requirements. Portal for schools/childcare providers to view data relating to their pupils The facility to record multiple services providing support/interventions to young people. Link to an appropriate mapping solution to view locations and routes on maps Within the software the following functionality is also required: Fully bilingual (Welsh) Accessible from a range of devices Send alerts/emails to users Facility for users to generate reports Send emails/alerts to portal users Full auditing facility Import data in a range of formats Export data in a range of formats Automatically calculate distances using GIS Automatically rank pupils in order of eligibility criteria for school places Link seamlessly with other systems e.g. Social care systems if required Test and Live environments Automatically rank pupils by a range predetermined criteria Ability to customise/adapt portal to each Authorities own specification Ability to restrict grant access to data on a granular level Import bilingual address files and validate addresses The above requirements are only an outline of requirements and will be defined prior to going to market This notice is not a call for competition, its a Prior information notice for expression of interests from the market to commence market engagement and to advise the market of the potential tender. Full details shall be provided in the tender documents. The Council is still considering the route to market open or use of a framework