Schools will be consulted on proposals to exit contracts with England’s largest school management information system (MIS) provider a year early.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) seeks to wind up its 10-month investigation into “suspected breaches of competition law” by Education Software Solutions (ESS) SIMS.
The probe was launched in April, the same month ESS scrapped its normal one-year rolling contracts in favour of three-year deals.
An announcement of the changes in autumn last year prompted a backlash from schools who felt they did not have enough time to find new deals.
