HRIS and Bureau Payroll Solution - Soft Market Engagement

Tender description

HRIS & Bureau Payroll Solution Cheshire Fire Authority (“the Authority”) is carrying out a soft market test to explore the range of systems available for a HRIS and Bureau Payroll Solution for Cheshire Fire Authority ("the Authority"). The Authority is carrying out early market engagement ahead of a potential procurement for a cloud-based Human Resources Information System (HRIS), to be delivered alongside a fully managed Bureau payroll service. This is an initial engagement exercise only. It is not a call for competition, but an opportunity for the Authority to better understand the market, potential solutions, and likely costs before finalising its requirements and procurement approach. For further details please refer to the documents 'HRIS soft market engagement' and 'HRIS Engagement Pack'. The HRIS Engagement Pack outlines the supplier engagement questions. You should provide a response to these questions and submit via Sell2Bluelight by the closing date of Monday 3rd August 2026 at 1700 hours. Your response should be in Word format rather than pdf. Please ensure you address all of the questions in the document 'HRIS Engagement Pack' and provide any supplementary/additional information that you feel is applicable and relevant. Please do not send general marketing information. As part of your response please provide details of any relevant framework agreements you are a party to, providing both the organisation, name of framework and reference number. All suppliers must state that they do not believe there is any conflict of interest before expressing an interest/providing a response.