Official UK procurement notice
Recruitment Managed Services · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Connect2Framework for Umbrella Company Services to the Public Sector (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Recruitment Managed Service Division of Commercial Services Kent Limited intends to appoint a contractor(s) with relevant experience and proven track records to deliver the Recruitment Managed Service division contract for the period 1st May 2028 to 30 April 2033, with the option to extend for up to a further 12 months. Contracts will be for the delivery of SAAS Temporary Agency Recruitment Software, Temporary Agency Pay and Bill Software, Agency Compliance Management Software and Information systems.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Connect2Framework for Umbrella Company Services to the Public Sector buys IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72), and who usually turns up
Connect2Framework for Umbrella Company Services to the Public Sector’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in South East England (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in South East England.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 36 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid8%
2–329%
4–629%
7+35%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate33%
Within ±2%49%
Above estimate17%
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1Published estimate£2.5m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 80 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–329%
4–629%
7+35%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| EUROPEAN ELECTRONIQUE LIMITEDEarlier contract | Managed Services - Y20023notice published Dec 2021 | Managed Services | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| boxxe LimitedEarlier contract | Managed Services - Y20023notice published Dec 2021 | Managed Services | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Capita Business Services LtdEarlier contract | Managed Services - Y20023notice published Dec 2021 | Managed Services | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Ricoh UK LtdEarlier contract | Managed Services - Y20023notice published Dec 2021 | Managed Services | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Cantium Business SolutionsEarlier contract | Managed Services - Y20023notice published Dec 2021 | Managed Services | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
47% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
47% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (47% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Managed Services - Y20023 — held by CANCOM Managed Services Ltd. and Insight Direct (+1 more); no contract end date published.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Using pre-Procurement Act commercial tool
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Call-off under a framework
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 May 2026, 12:17 BST
- Last source update
- 21 May 2026, 12:17 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-047009- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069efdFind a Tender
- Call-off under framework Crown Commercial Services G-Cloud 15
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 May 2026 → 1 May 2028 · 2 dates- Planning notice published152 days ago21 May 2026, 12:17 BST
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Contract starts1 May 2028, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Pipeline notice published21 May 2026, 12:17 BSTUK1
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
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender