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# Office for Students: Contract for Fit and Proper (FPP) checks

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/office-for-students-contract-for-fit-and-proper-fpp-checks-ocds-h6vhtk-056a3b). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Office for Students: "Office for Students: Contract for Fit and Proper (FPP) checks". Published status: complete. Published Value: £96,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 26 Aug 2025, 11:00 BST. Published submission portal: www.delta-esourcing.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Office for Students](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/office-for-students-gov-pb1253)
- **Published Value:** £96,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 26 August 2025 at 11:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Below threshold - open competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
- **Delivery Location:** UKK1
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £108,600 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/office-for-students-contract-for-fit-and-proper-fpp-checks-ocds-h6vhtk-056a3b#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-056a3b`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/office-for-students-contract-for-fit-and-proper-fpp-checks-ocds-h6vhtk-056a3b#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [delta-esourcing.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.delta-esourcing.com)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/office-for-students-contract-for-fit-and-proper-fpp-checks-ocds-h6vhtk-056a3b#participate

## Description
When providers of higher education in England apply to register with the Office for Students, the registration team conduct FPP checks on key individuals as part of the initial registration process and on an ongoing basis as part of the ongoing conditions of registration. The supplier is expected to provide a way of enabling the OfS to check whether key individuals at each provider applying to register with the OfS are fit and proper. The checks may be conducted on individuals the OfS consider relevant and would include roles such as (but not limited to) the accountable officer, the Chair of the governing body or the company secretary.
The type of checks to be conducted may vary between individuals and could include any or all of the following:  
•Current disqualification as a director
•Current disqualification as a charity trustee or trustee for a charity
•Undischarged bankrupt
•Unspent criminal conviction
•Adverse findings in relevant civil procedure
•Adverse findings in disciplinary hearings
•Adverse findings in the education sector
•Adverse findings for use of public funds
•Previously being refused licence to trade
•Guilty under s.199 ECTA [2023]
•Criminal Offence in relation to tax
•Insolvency or liquidation
•Previous bankruptcy 
•Previous removal as Trustee of Charity or Charity Trustee

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 79000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £96,000

- **Contract Period:** 01/11/2025 to 31/10/2027
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Certn (UK) Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-PPON:PNHZ-1168-DPLL`
  - Value: £108,600 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £108,600
  - Signed Date: 07/06/2026

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F044767-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-06-30T11:59:05.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-24T01:16:39.069Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-056a3b