CMA accepts ESS’s offer for eligible schools to switch contracts

Education Software Services (ESS), the company behind SIMS, has signed a legally binding commitment that will give schools the opportunity to apply to an independent adjudicator for a 12-month break clause, if they had ‘genuinely’ considered switching MIS supplier at the time ESS moved schools from an annual to a three-year contract in April 2022, but reasonably concluded that they would not be able to switch within the timescales set by ESS.

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