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E007PC HR Recruitment Advertising

Buyer: Essex County Council →

BuyerEssex County Council
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published9 Jan 2026

What is being bought

The objectives of the procurement are: 1. ECC can call upon subject matter expertise and advice in relation to recruitment advertising, so that we are ahead of the curve in attracting the best and most suitable talent into our organisation. 2. ECC can call also upon subject matter expertise and advice in relation to recruitment advertising for our public sector customers (as listed above). 3. To ensure our talent pool population grows significantly, via effective promotion of the platform in the right channels. 4. That the attraction approaches selected by ECC and our customers are underpinned by robust and clear return on investment (ROI) data to inform all future decisions 5. That digital is placed at the forefront of talent attraction. 6. That our methods are innovative, market leading, attention grabbing and future proof. 7. That ECC is positioned in the market with a strong, clear employer value proposition and brand that continues to be articulated through specific attraction (individual and campaigns). 8. That our EVP has evolved constantly, to remain fresh and exciting. 9. That our brand not only represent ECC but can be re-purposed to represent specific areas of the business such as Social Care, ensuring they are able to maintain their individual identity, whilst still clearly being part of the Essex brand family. 10. That ECC is informed and ready for future workforce trends and able to deliver strategic workforce planning underpinned by considered, informed and pro-active attraction techniques. 11. To ensure that recruitment advertising activities reach the target audience and generate suitable candidates for recruitment exercises. 12. That ECC can attract talent effectively and quickly to our known hard to fill areas, to underpin robust strategic workforce planning. 13. That all services are available to ECC and any customer we represent.

Delivery location

UK

Categories

Advertising and marketing services 79340000

Lot details

Lot 1

The objectives of the procurement are: 1. ECC can call upon subject matter expertise and advice in relation to recruitment advertising, so that we are ahead of the curve in attracting the best and most suitable talent into our organisation. 2. ECC can call also upon subject matter expertise and advice in relation to recruitment advertising for our public sector customers (as listed above). 3. To ensure our talent pool population grows significantly, via effective promotion of the platform in the right channels. 4. That the attraction approaches selected by ECC and our customers are underpinned by robust and clear return on investment (ROI) data to inform all future decisions 5. That digital is placed at the forefront of talent attraction. 6. That our methods are innovative, market leading, attention grabbing and future proof. 7. That ECC is positioned in the market with a strong, clear employer value proposition and brand that continues to be articulated through specific attraction (individual and campaigns). 8. That our EVP has evolved constantly, to remain fresh and exciting. 9. That our brand not only represent ECC but can be re-purposed to represent specific areas of the business such as Social Care, ensuring they are able to maintain their individual identity, whilst still clearly being part of the Essex brand family. 10. That ECC is informed and ready for future workforce trends and able to deliver strategic workforce planning underpinned by considered, informed and pro-active attraction techniques. 11. To ensure that recruitment advertising activities reach the target audience and generate suitable candidates for recruitment exercises. 12. That ECC can attract talent effectively and quickly to our known hard to fill areas, to underpin robust strategic workforce planning. 13. That all services are available to ECC and any customer we represent.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality — 60
price — 40

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 Advertising and marketing services (79340000); 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 795,1683 median · 32.1 average (1,574 of 5,168 with a bid count)2.9 average (1,764 of 5,168 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer3Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK1,4634 median · 57.2 average (435 of 1,463 with a bid count)4.7 average (513 of 1,463 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 rationaleCall-off under Lot 1 of the Eastern Shires Procurement Organisation's Advertising Solutions Framework 3a_24.
Rationale classificationsThe procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
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

001746-2026-E007PC HR Recruitment Advertising-1

Statusactive
Value£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-060289
Latest release ID001746-2026
Latest release timestampFri Jan 09 2026 11:03:08 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodlimited
Procurement method detailsAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
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 release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
9 Jan 2026award, contract001746-2026

All source data

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

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
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