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Recruitment Services (GMPF)

Buyer: Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council →

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BuyerTameside Metropolitan Borough Council
StatusClosed
Deadline5 Nov 2025
Value£800,000
Published6 Oct 2025

What is being bought

STAR Procurement, acting on behalf of Tameside MBC, acting in its capacity as administering authority for Greater Manchester Pension Fund (GMPF), host authority for Northern Local Government Pension Scheme (NLGPS), is inviting Tenders for the provision of Recruitment Services described in the Specification (Document 2), with two (2) lots: Lot A - Recruitment of Non-executive Directors (NEDs), and/or Lot B - Recruitment of Executive Directors (EDs). The aim is to select headhunters that will put forward high-calibre candidates for the LGPS Pool company that GMPF is setting up on behalf of Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Yorkshire.

Delivery location

UKC, GB · UKD, GB · UKE, GB · UKF, GB · UKG, GB · UKH, GB · UKI, GB · UKJ, GB · UKK, GB · UKC, GB · UKD, GB · UKE, GB · UKF, GB · UKG, GB · UKH, GB · UKI, GB · UKJ, GB · UKK, GB

Categories

Recruitment services 79600000

Lot details

Non-executive Directors

Recruitment of Non-executive Directors (permanent and/or interim)

Statusactive
Value£280,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Jan 2026 to 31 Dec 2026
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality — 2 questions (70%)
Price — Rates (30%)

Executive Directors

Recruitment of Executive Directors (permanent and/or interim)

Statusactive
Value£520,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Jan 2026 to 31 Dec 2026
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality — 2 questions (70%)
Price — Rates (30%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
ARecruitment servicesNot published
BRecruitment servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Recruitment services (79600000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 7913,7404 median · 30.9 average (5,804 of 13,740 with a bid count)3.2 average (6,508 of 13,740 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer1Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKC5214 median · 51.4 average (239 of 521 with a bid count)4.7 average (266 of 521 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)9654 median · 4.9 average (15 of 965 with a bid count)1.4 average (15 of 965 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05a8ef
Latest release ID062599-2025
Latest release timestampMon Oct 06 2025 14:47:48 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/062599-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-11-05T12:00:00Z
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2025-11-21T23:59:59Z
Submission method detailshttp://www.the-chest.org.uk
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£800,000
Tender lots in source2
Tender items in source2
Tender documents in source3
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
6 Oct 2025tender062599-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
6 Oct 2025 · 062599-2025 · tender
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