Procurement-ready. UK-hosted. Nothing to install.
Admit is the admissions platform for Early Learning and Childcare (ELC), primary and secondary places, live at West Lothian Council.
This page answers the questions IT and procurement ask first.
Three routes to buy
Priced on your application volume, not your user count.
G-Cloud 15
Call off directly from the Digital Marketplace listing. No tender to run.
Softcat
If your council already buys through Softcat, you can buy Admit the same way.
Quick Quote
For lower-value contracts, send us a Quick Quote. We price it on your own application numbers.
Hosting and stack, in plain terms
Admit runs in the browser. There is nothing to deploy, patch or host.
UK-hosted
Hosted on AWS in the London region. Data stays in the UK.
Browser-based
Staff, partner providers and parents use a modern browser. No client, no VPN, no server.
Maintained for you
Hosting, security patching and updates are included. The team that builds Admit does them.
Patching
Critical patches go out as soon as they are ready. We normally apply them before the working day, with a short planned outage. An urgent fix can go out during the day.
Sign-in
Multi-factor authentication on every account. Parents can sign in with mygovscot.
Allocation
Rules-based and deterministic. Admit applies your criteria, and the same applications always give the same result.
- Cyber Essentials certified
- Independent penetration tests every year since 2023
- Role-based access, with every action in the audit log
- A named Data Protection Officer
Data processing and Scots law
Admit is built by a Scottish company, for Scottish councils, under contracts in Scots law.
Your data
The council is the data controller. Admit processes the data on your instructions.
Residency
Data is stored and processed in the UK.
Agreement
A data processing agreement comes with the contract. We will support your DPIA.
Works alongside whichever MIS you use
Admit replaces and extends NAMS. It does not replace SEEMiS, or whatever follows it.
Placements go out as CSV, for any MIS to take in. How data comes in from your systems is agreed during onboarding.
You supply your catchment areas, by API or as GeoJSON. Admit checks each home address against them.
- MIS-agnostic: no dependency on one supplier
- Bulk upload of existing children from a spreadsheet
- CSV exports for your MIS, finance and statutory returns
Service levels
Availability and response targets are set out in the contract. Ask us for the summary.
Onboarding
Typically 4 weeks from award to go-live, with training included.
Changes
Criteria, eligibility and intakes are configured to your policy. Most changes need no code.
Exit and data export
Your data is yours. You can take it with you.
During the contract
Export your records whenever you need them.
At the end
A full export of your data, then deletion on the terms in the contract.
Forward this to leadership and finance
They will ask what it costs and what it saves. The business case is one page.