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# Preferred Supplier List - Recruitment Agency – Temporary & Permanent

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/preferred-supplier-list-recruitment-agency-temporary-permanent-ocds-h6vhtk-040d87). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Housing 21: "Preferred Supplier List - Recruitment Agency – Temporary & Permanent". Published status: complete. Framework Ceiling: Value not published. 7 published lots. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Housing 21](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/housing-21-rsh-l0055)
- **Framework Ceiling (notional):** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 7
- **Procurement Method:** Restricted procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Recruitment services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-040d87`

## 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/preferred-supplier-list-recruitment-agency-temporary-permanent-ocds-h6vhtk-040d87#tl-md)

## Description
The main tender objective is to create award of ‘Preferred Supplier List (PSL)’ framework to enable the recruitment team to have central oversite of recruitment agency usage. This aims to increases transparency, compliance, and overall management of recruitment agencies across Housing 21. 
The PSL framework will manage future recruitment requirement for temporary and permanent staff and will be split into three lots which include Care, Housing and Corporate. To ensure specialist recruitment agencies can support our requirements sub lots for Care and Housing will be across North, Central and South locations. The Corporate lot will be one entire lot.

## Lots (7)
### Lot 3: Lot 3 – Corporate
- **Lot id:** `3`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 79600000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

### Lot 1.1: Lot 1.1: Care - North
- **Lot id:** `1.1`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 79600000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

### Lot 1.2: Lot 1.2: Care – Central
- **Lot id:** `1.2`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 79600000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

### Lot 1.3: Lot 1.3: Care – South
- **Lot id:** `1.3`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 79600000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

### Lot 2.1: Lot 2.1: Housing – North
- **Lot id:** `2.1`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 79600000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

### Lot 2.2: Lot 2.2: Housing – Central
- **Lot id:** `2.2`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 79600000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

### Lot 2.3: Lot 2.3: Housing – South
- **Lot id:** `2.3`
- **Status:** cancelled
- **CPV codes:** 79600000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Recruitment Agency - Temporary & Permanent - Preferred Supplier List Framework (active)
  - Award id: `028401-2024-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Adecco Group UK & Ireland, Community Resourcing Limited, Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd (+3 more suppliers)**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-59763`, `GB-FTS-72930`, `GB-COH-00975677`, `GB-FTS-163593`, `GB-FTS-123605`, `GB-FTS-59811`
  - Value: £5,000,000 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Recruitment Agency - Temporary & Permanent - Preferred Supplier List Framework (active)
  - Signed Value: £5,000,000
  - Signed Date: 29/06/2024

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F028401-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-09-05T11:05:06.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T22:51:29.631Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-040d87