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AwardedFind a Tender · award
BuyerCity of Bristol College
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published1 Oct 2025

What is being bought

Provision of agencies to provide staff as required for covering vacancies, sickness or as ‘temp to perm’ staff as further described in the Scope and Requirements.

Delivery location

UKK11

Categories

Recruitment services 79600000

Lot details

Lot 1

There are generally two types of agency required by the College. The first is for vacancy cover when either we are unable to recruit to the post or when awaiting a new starter to begin when the previous post holder has left. The second is sickness cover where classes are unable to be merged and would be cancelled without the cover. There is then the occasional need and option for a ‘temp to perm’ option with recruited staff and we will be looking to agree a sliding scale of rates with successful agencies. Finally, we have a lot of part time roles and need to understand the pricing structure if we offer a part time post on varying FTE’s, so advice and knowledge from an agency is needed. We intend to operate a ‘framework’ of suppliers, with a single ‘Tier 1’ agency having the first refusal at filling posts, and up to 3 agencies at ‘Tier 2’ who would be offered roles which the Tier 1 agency cannot fill. This framework structure would be managed by the College HR team. There could be

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality — 55.00%
Cost — 45.00%

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Not publishedNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Recruitment services (79600000); 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 794,0663 median · 34 average (1,065 of 4,066 with a bid count)2.8 average (1,198 of 4,066 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKK11121 median · 1 average (4 of 12 with a bid count)1 average (4 of 12 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 agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
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.

Awards

Contracts

Agencies

Statusactive
Value£2,200,000

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04e49e
Latest release ID061314-2025
Latest release timestampWed Oct 01 2025 12:06:03 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsCompetitive procedure with negotiation
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release4

Notice history

DateEventReference
1 Oct 2025award, contract061314-2025

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 (1 releases)
1 Oct 2025 · 061314-2025 · award, contract
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