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260 - HR Recruitment Agency Framework Tender.

Buyer: Coleg Gwent →

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BuyerColeg Gwent
StatusClosed
Deadline3 Jul 2026
Value£2,800,000
Published26 May 2026

What is being bought

This tender is to create a framework of recruitment agencies for Coleg Gwent's Human Resources Dept. We are looking to potentially appoint 3 ranked agencies, and then a pool of up to 7 other agencies that we can use to hopefully cover all the recruitment needs of the College. Presentations will be held during the evaluation, to clarify the scoring. The framework will last 2 years, then be opened up and reviewed, then closed again for a further 2 years. All documents to be published in Bravo Etendering portal.

Delivery location

UK, GB

Categories

Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security 79000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£2,800,000
Contract periodFrom 20 Aug 2026 to 19 Aug 2028
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality / technical — Quality part of the tender (100%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and securityNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security (79000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 7910,1684 median · 32.2 average (4,127 of 10,168 with a bid count)3.2 average (4,614 of 10,168 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK2,8164 median · 64.5 average (1,082 of 2,816 with a bid count)5.1 average (1,273 of 2,816 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)6464 median · 9.9 average (8 of 646 with a bid count)2.5 average (8 of 646 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementYes
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06550c
Latest release ID048498-2026
Latest release timestampTue May 26 2026 09:35:37 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/048498-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-07-03T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-06-24T12:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-07-27T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailshttps://etenderwales.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.shtml
Submission languagescy, en
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£2,800,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source4
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
26 May 2026tender048498-2026
2 Mar 2026planningUpdate018301-2026
16 Feb 2026planning013905-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (3 releases)
26 May 2026 · 048498-2026 · tender
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2 Mar 2026 · 018301-2026 · planningUpdate
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16 Feb 2026 · 013905-2026 · planning
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      "contactPoint": {
        "name": "Gareth Tidmarsh",
        "email": "gareth.tidmarsh@coleggwent.ac.uk",
        "telephone": "01495 333547"
      }
    }
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  "language": "en",
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        "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/013905-2026",
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        "noticeType": "UK2",
        "description": "Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender",
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        "datePublished": "2026-02-16T14:41:25Z"
      }
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        "description": "If you are interested in coming to the engagement day, where we hope to set out what we are looking for in the tender, please can you register an interest so we know how many potential suppliers may come to the engagement day."
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}