Official UK procurement notice
Permanent Recruitment Advertising Services for the Defra group
Authority: DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe contract covers Permanent Recruitment Campaigns for Defra group. The service includes:
Campaign Attraction
- Provide day to day recruitment advertising solutions for Defra Strategic Resourcing across Defra group, using market intelligence to support solutions and media recommendations for the best candidate engagement ensuring value for money.
- Ensure Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) are considered within every aspect of attraction and advertising, offering expert advice on advert content and where to place advertisements to increase diversity of candidate pool and support social mobility.
Brand Development & Candidate Experience
- Provide clear guidance on the most up-to-date methods of attraction & advertisement including how candidates apply, where they are looking and the best way to engage with passive candidates for agreed market sectors.
- Create landing page options including layout and copy, incorporate approved media for recruitment campaigns worked through and agreed with the business or Strategic Resourcing lead.
Management Information
Service provider will provide a detailed breakdown of activity for each recruitment campaign service provider has managed. To include as a minimum:
i. Detail of financial spend including savings procured on behalf of the client. This will be achieved by establishing a Defra finance compliant invoicing and charging service, which aligns to our finance system.
ii. Media usage and performance of media e.g., click per view, geographical & diversity statistics.
iii. Average cost per hire (metric and calculation to be agreed with supplier)
iv. Recommendations for future campaigns
Creative solutions are provided to support wider initiatives to increasing representation and government initiatives, such as Levelling Up and wider Civil Service Reform.
Contract also provided for Sift and Assessment Services which requires TMP (PeopleScout) to undertake these activities in line with the agreed practices in place for Civil Service, NE and EA.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 5 Jun 2026, 10:49 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Jun 2026, 10:49 BST
- Authority reference
P-39297- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-053193- Latest notice
- Transparency notice (UK5)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ae63Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
- Published justification
Direct award required to carry on service.
Notice history
2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 5 Jun 2026- Transparency notice published5 Jun 2026, 10:49 BSTUK5
- Contract signature expected5 Jun 2026, 23:59 BSTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEOPLESCOUT LIMITED a TMP (HOLDINGS) LIMITED Company (05648042)5 Jun 2026 – 31 Aug 2028 | £4,500,000 | — | Standstill |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- People Scout LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender