Official UK procurement notice
Recruitment Advertising Partner for the GDC
Authority: General Dental Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe General Dental Council (GDC) conducts the majority of its recruitment through its in-house recruitment team. To support this, we will be going out to tender to appoint a recruitment advertising partner to provide high-quality recruitment advertising services. The successful partner will support the GDC in advertising a range of roles across generalist and specialist platforms, ensuring we reach a broad and diverse talent pool. The appointed partner will provide a cost-effective, responsive, and flexible service that aligns with our values and supports our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). We expect our recruitment advertising partner to advise on the most suitable channels, remain up to date with market trends, and adapt swiftly to new opportunities and technologies.
If your organisation has the capability and expertise to deliver this service and wishes to register interest, please download and review the Recruitment Campaigns 2024–2025 document to gain an overview of the roles we typically advertise. If you would like to participate in this procurement please complete the Expression of Interest form available in the document repository on the Delta eSourcing Tender Postbox facility. Completed forms must be submitted via the Delta eSourcing Tender Postbox facility by 17:00 on 3 September 2025.
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CPV: Recruitment services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£160,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Quality Response: 60%
- Advertising Costs: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
- Advertising Costs
- Quality Response
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 Aug 2025, 10:05 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Aug 2025, 10:05 BST
- Authority reference
GDC-2025-013- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-050409- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-058bd7Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 31 Oct 2025, 17:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 3 Sept 2025, 17:00 BST
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
No tender submission is required at this stage. If you are interested in participating in the procurement please complete and return the EOI form available in the tenderbox document repository.
Timeline
21 Aug 2025 → 3 Nov 2025 · 5 dates- Planning notice published21 Aug 2025, 10:05 BST
- Clarification questions by3 Sept 2025, 17:00 BST
- Tender notice expected15 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline356 days ago31 Oct 2025, 17:00 GMT
- Contract starts354 days ago3 Nov 2025
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Planned procurement notice published21 Aug 2025, 10:05 BSTUK3
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender