Official UK procurement notice
Executive Recruitment and Search Services
Authority: Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionMid Yorkshire Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is seeking to engage with the market to inform the potential future procurement of executive recruitment and search services.<br/><br/>The services are expected to support appointments to senior roles, including:<br/><br/>Chair positions<br/>Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) and Associate NEDs (ANEDs)<br/>Senior Executive roles (e.g. Band 9 / Very Senior Manager level)<br/><br/>The authority is exploring a more strategic and flexible approach to recruitment, including:<br/><br/>Proactive talent identification and pipeline development<br/>Early engagement with potential candidates prior to formal recruitment<br/>Flexible delivery models tailored to individual appointments
CPV: Job search services · Recruitment services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The future requirement may include, but is not limited to:Planned
The future requirement may include, but is not limited to:<br/><br/>Executive search and recruitment services<br/>Market mapping and talent pipeline development<br/>Candidate attraction, assessment, and shortlisting<br/>Advisory support to appointment panels<br/>Pre-recruitment engagement activity (e.g. “soft search” to test market interest and role design)<br/>Provision of market intelligence and insights<br/><br/>Objectives of the Engagement<br/><br/>The authority is seeking to:<br/><br/>Understand market capability and capacity<br/>Explore delivery and commercial models<br/>Identify innovative approaches to improving recruitment outcomes<br/>Inform the design of a future procurement process<br/><br/>Areas of Interest for Supplier Feedback<br/><br/>The authority welcomes input on:<br/><br/>Delivery models (e.g. full-service, partial support, search-only)<br/>Approaches to talent pipelining and succession planning<br/>Methods to improve diversity and inclusion in candidate pools<br/>Strategies to reduce time to hire and failed appointments<br/>Commercial models, including pricing structures and multi-year arrangements<br/>Value-added services (e.g. insights, psychometrics, market analysis) Additional information: Interested organisations should register their interest by contacting:<br/><br/>[email protected]<br/><br/>Suppliers will then be provided with further information, including any questionnaire and engagement details.<br/><br/>Deadline for expressions of interest: [<br/><br/>Monday 20th April 2026.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust buys Recruitment services (CPV 7960), and who usually turns up
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Recruitment services (CPV 7960) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in Yorkshire and the Humber.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Yorkshire and the Humber.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 66 days of the bid deadline.
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Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid0% / 0%
2–325% / 20%
4–638% / 40%
7+38% / 40%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate33%
Within ±2%67%
Above estimate0%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1The future requirement may include, but is not limited to:CPV 7960Published estimate£150k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 153 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid12%
2–323%
4–627%
7+37%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 7 Apr 2026, 17:22 BST
- Last source update
- 7 Apr 2026, 17:22 BST
- Authority reference
W230738- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-031651- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- Submission deadline
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Timeline
7 Apr 2026 → 1 Jun 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published198 days ago7 Apr 2026, 17:22 BST
- Tender notice expected144 days ago1 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
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- No contract published
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- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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