Issue details

This report seeks approval for expenditure related to the provision of specialist Management Information Service (MIS) for the council’s adult learning service HFALS. The Tribal system (EBS4) is included on the “G Cloud 14 Framework Agreement, Lot 2 Crown Commercial Services”. The original price quoted by Tribal for an updated MIS system in 2024 was £370,545 which equates to £123,515 per year over a three-year period.
The Head of HFALS has negotiated a reduced contract price for a period of 3 years at a price of £103,757 per year for a total cost of £311,271 over 3 years. This is a reduction of £59,274 from the original quoted price. Included in the negotiations was the cost for some additional modules and implementation days to allow for some future proofing. This resulted in an additional cost avoidance of £43,480 if these modules and implementation days were added separately. Therefore, the total negotiated value is £102,754.

Digital Services have covered the historic costs for the contract over the last 5 years at £75K per year. Digital Services will continue to pay that same amount £75k per year from March 2025 to Feb 2028 DS = £225k in total (given the inflationary awards to DS). Our Adult Learning Service can then pay the difference of £29k per year X 3 = approx. £87k from our annual GLA Grant Adult Skills Budget (ASB).


The Tribal system (EBS4) is included on the “G Cloud 14 Lot 2 Crown Commercial Services”. There are other providers listed on this framework but none of these can provide the service HFALS requires. This being the case, the Corporate Procurement team have advised that HFALS can make a direct award for a new contract with Tribal Group PLC.