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title: "8d866cf3-ecdb-4522-a0f9-52624bdfd20f - US_25208 - Student Admissions and Conversion Support"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-055d33"
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current_stage: "Planning"
buyer: "UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX"
published: "2025-07-10"
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# 8d866cf3-ecdb-4522-a0f9-52624bdfd20f - US_25208 - Student Admissions and Conversion Support

Buyer: UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-055d33

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## Summary

The University of Sussex, a sub-central government public authority, is planning a procurement process for "Student Admissions and Conversion Support" to enhance its student recruitment efforts. The process is currently in the planning stage, with the focus on understanding market capabilities to support the University’s Admissions and International Office by increasing student numbers for the 2026/27 academic year. Taking place in Brighton, UK, this initiative falls under the services category within administrative educational services and advertising and marketing services. Interested parties should participate in a preliminary market engagement exercise, concluding by the end of August 2025, with remote sessions potentially being scheduled mid-August.

This tender represents a significant opportunity for businesses specialising in educational and marketing services to establish a long-term partnership with an esteemed institution like the University of Sussex. Companies with expertise in admissions processing and conversion communications aimed at overseas postgraduate taught (PGT) students will find this particularly relevant. By providing compliant and swift application handling and effective communication strategies, firms can assist the University in achieving a 48-hour turnaround goal for processing applications, enriching their operational portfolio and supporting the institution’s expansion objectives. The contract, beginning in February 2026, offers a potential duration until January 2032, providing stability and growth opportunities within a dynamic educational setting.

## Notice

8d866cf3-ecdb-4522-a0f9-52624bdfd20f Please follow the link the Proactis portal - https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login to view the information and questionnaire. Please also direct any questions via the portal. US_25208 - Student Admissions and Conversion Support The aim of this exercise is to understand the market's ability to support the University of Sussex's Admissions team and International Office in increasing student numbers for the 2026/27 intakes. We are broadly defining the areas as "Admissions" support in processing applications and dealing with offers and acceptances and "Conversion" support looking to provide communications to offer holding students to nurture them to successful enrolment. This PME exercise is forming part of our discovery to identify if there is a viable, affordable, externally offered service/services that can improve student numbers working alongside the efforts of our internal teams whilst reducing the burden on those teams. There is also internal discovery activity taking place. The purpose of PME is to allow development of the university's requirements, design the procedure and prepare tender documents, identify suppliers who may be able to supply the services and identify likely contractual terms. To this end we will ask questions about what this could look like from the process through to terms and conditions. Aims of the contract(s) Provide optimal intake in 2026/7 of overseas PGT students. Admissions: (Admissions Team) a) Provide quality support (ensuring completed and accurate documentation) with admissions processing focussing on our PGT (Post Graduate Taught) Overseas applicants, (piloting applications from South Asia in the first instance c.4,000), to work towards quality processing and KPIs such as a 48-hour application to offer turnaround time. b) Supplier will be responsible for compliance of applications, ensuring that applicants meet English entry standards, have ATAS clearance where required and have all necessary paperwork to ensure compliance with UKVI expectations. Conversion: (International Office) a) Provide additional functionality necessary to support the University's student recruitment communications with Overseas PGT pre-applicants, applicants and offer holders. b) Converting offer holding students beginning in March 2026 to impact on intakes in 2026 in the first instance. The aim of the partnership is to expand and improve conversion activity at a time when the CEA Marketing team is transitioning from an end-of-life Anthology CRM product to a new CRM provider, Dot Digital.

### Planning Information

This PME exercise will comprise of a questionnaire to be issued and submitted via the university's tendering portal (Proactis - https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login).
Full documentation and information can be found in the Proactis Portal by following the above link and searching for opportunities linked to the University of Sussex.
The deadline for submission is 04/08/2025 at 11.00am.
This may be followed by remote sessions(s) to take place in Mid August 2025.
Please note the engagement period end date has been set as end of August 2025 to allow for the possibility of the remote session(s).

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/039082-2025 |
| Notice type | UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 10 Jul 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 29 Aug 2025 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 1 Feb 2026 - 31 Jan 2030 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Planning |
| Lots status | Planning |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX |
| Locality | BRIGHTON |
| Post town | Brighton |
| Postcode | BN1 9RH |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLJ South East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLJ2 Surrey, East and West Sussex |
| ITL 3 | TLJ21 Brighton and Hove |
| Local authority | Brighton and Hove |
| Electoral ward | Coldean & Stanmer |
| Westminster constituency | Brighton Pavilion |
| Delivery location | TLJ2 Surrey, East and West Sussex |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 75 - Administration, defence and social security services
- 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

### Codes

- 75121000 - Administrative educational services
- 79340000 - Advertising and marketing services

## Release History

- 10 Jul 2025 at 16:03 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/039082-2025

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/039082-2025
  10th July 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents
- https://www.sussex.ac.uk/

## Provenance

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