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title: "Pre-employment Background Screening"
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# Pre-employment Background Screening

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/pre-employment-background-screening-ocds-h6vhtk-02bb94). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** British Council: "Pre-employment Background Screening". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [British Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/british-council-gov-ot313)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Investigation services, Recruitment services, Security services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02bb94`

## 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/pre-employment-background-screening-ocds-h6vhtk-02bb94#tl-md)

## Description
The British Council will be seeking to appoint a suitable provider via a future tender to deliver Background Screening  service who can support its PAS policy, This service will verify the background of approximately 2,000 new hires annually across 100+ countries and an annual rescreening programme of approximately 10,500 employees. The system should be capable of supporting web-based candidate data entry and integrate with our Candidate Management system (SAP Success Factors) for Orders and reporting. We are also interested in solutions that would enable us to screen consultants and contract workers to the same standards.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 79600000, 79710000, 79720000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** The British Council is looking for a global solution to support background screening of all new hire employees and ongoing annual rescreening cycle of approximately 10,500 employees The British council utilises SAP Success Factors so an ability to or...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F013345-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-06-14T11:54:53.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T19:56:54.091Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02bb94