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Agent Channel Student Recruitment Services

Higher education services
London (UKI)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Royal Holloway and Bedford New College: "Agent Channel Student Recruitment Services". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityRoyal Holloway and Bedford New CollegeScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
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Published history for Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Average Price Reduction
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
1.8Bids / Report
60% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 5 active published awards; 5 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Price reduction compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityRoyal Holloway and Bedford New College
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published12 Sept 2022, 12:05 BST
Last source update12 Sept 2022, 12:05 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationHigher education services
Delivery area
London (UKI)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0367a5
What is being bought
Management of Agent Channel student recruitment for the university, and the admission of these students in the majority of territories the university operates in
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    12 Sept 2022, 12:05 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    12 Sept 2022, 12:05 BST
  3. Buyer information updated
    12 Sept 2022, 12:05 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    The exclusive third-party provider of the Marketing, Recruitment and Admissions Solution to International Students on behalf of the University recruited through the agent channel with the exclusion of Australia, New Zealand, North America and Western Europe
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    12 Sept 2022, 12:05 BST
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 11 Sept 2022, 00:00 BST · £25,000,000
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Study Group Limited
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£25,000,000 · signed 11 Sept 2022, 00:00 BST · active
Bid statistics
bids: 1 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Royal Holloway and Bedford New College

Contracting authority GB-FTS-6180
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  • Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
    buyer

    Egham Hill, Egham, UKI, TW20 0EX
    procurement@rhul.ac.uk
    +44 1784917645

  • Royal Courts of Justice
    reviewBody

    Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

  • Study Group Limited
    supplier

    02325576
    Brighton Study Centre 1, Billinton Way, Brighton, UKJ21, BN1 4LF
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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleThe contract value is gross of onwards agent commission and taxes and provides target levels for increased international student recruitment of over the contract duration, including certain minimum guaranteed financial performance levels in the first two Academic Years of the contract. Increasing overseas student recruitment immediately is critical to the success of our strategic vision. The University currently contracts with 100 different agents across the world, all of whom have contracts with Study Group for the recruitment of students to the Royal Holloway University of London International Study Centre (operated in collaboration with Study Group). Study Group in turn works with circa 2,900 agents worldwide. Contracting with Study Group Limited to provide the majority of our agent-based recruitment activity will deliver an immediate and substantial increase in scale without the need for additional training of staff or agents. It is our view that it is not possible for another provider to achieve the required performance in the timescale required which would deliver the immediate increase in scale of this contract for Agent Channel recruitment. The University’s pathway programmes are run by Study Group Limited who operate out of the University’s premises and with whom the University already has a long-standing and established working relationship developed over the past 10 years. The University considers that Study Group has the specific expertise at its disposal to deliver the service, given that it already has a dedicated admissions team and sales and marketing resources located in over 40 global locations devoted to the recruitment of students for the University via the Royal Holloway University of London International Study Centre and the necessary systems in place to be able to deliver the services seamlessly without the need for further training. The Negotiated Procedure Without Prior Publication has been utilised for the above reasons. It is expected that any future requirement for this service after the end of this contract will be openly procured if the approach is successful and the market for these services has matured.