Official UK procurement notice
Recruitment, Verification and Payroll Management of Non-Permanent Workers (NPW) outsourcing services in Bangladesh
Authority: British Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBritish Council in Bangladesh requires Non-Permanent Workers (NPW) to support its different business activities including Programmes and Projects, Business Support Services, Teaching Centres and Exams. The NPWs will be engaged in different supportive activities. We intend to select the right service provider to recruit, verify and manage NPWs including payrolls under a single supplier contract and will ensure all compliance are followed as per British Council guidelines. Annually required number of seasonal NPWs under various categories will be in a range from 1200 to 1500 with majority in various exams venue support services roles.
- The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 1 Apr 2030, 23:59 BST.
- How the procedure runs: This will be 2-stage competitive flexible procurement exercise where mandatory qualification criteria including licenses issued by the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments, Bangladesh will be assessed at Stage-1 and passed bidders will be assessed on their submitted technical and commercial proposals for final selection of single service provider for Bangladesh operation.
CPV: Supply services of personnel including temporary staff
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
- Economic & financial standing
a) Valid DIFE Licence - Category E or above :
Supplier must hold a current DIFE licence issued by the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments, Bangladesh, of Category E (1,001-2,000 employees) or higher, valid at bid submission and throughout the contract term.
b) No material safeguarding, labour law, or regulatory enforcement actions in the past 5 years
c) Signing of confidentiality agreement to receive commercially sensitive information at Stage-2
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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 (7)
- Organisational strength and experience: 15%
- Recruitment, Management and payment process: 10%
- Meeting Specification: 5%
- Contract acceptance with/out amendment request: 5%
- KPI acceptance with/out amendment request: 5%
- Commercial: 50%
- Social Value: 10%
Published award criteria (7)
- Commercial: Recruitment fees, vetting packages, payroll management charges,
- Social Value: Contribution to ethical recruitment; fair wages; worker welfare; modern slavery prevention, local community and gender inclusion initiatives etc
- Organisational strength and experience: Track record in Bangladesh HR outsourcing; client references; DIFE licence category and compliance history; technological and financial capability for payroll management.
- Recruitment, Management and payment process: Recruitment process; safeguarding and vetting standards; SLA commitments; talent pool database and capacity for venue staff volumes.
- Meeting Specification: Maintaining pool, vetting/background screening capacity, ability to deliver services across the country in Bangladesh
- Contract acceptance with/out amendment request: Acceptance of contract template including insurance clause
- KPI acceptance with/out amendment request: Various Key Performance Indicator of the services to be monitored and recorded at different frequency
- Economic & financial standing
a) Valid DIFE Licence - Category E or above :
Supplier must hold a current DIFE licence issued by the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments, Bangladesh, of Category E (1,001-2,000 employees) or higher, valid at bid submission and throughout the contract term.
b) No material safeguarding, labour law, or regulatory enforcement actions in the past 5 years
c) Signing of confidentiality agreement to receive commercially sensitive information at Stage-2
- Price carries 50 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 5 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How British Council buys Supply services of personnel including temporary staff (CPV 7962): the notice lists a non-UK location
No market comparison: the notice lists a non-UK delivery location. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Supply services of personnel including temporary staff (CPV 7962) →
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A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
The notice lists delivery in Bangladesh, so this procedure has no confirmed single UK region; the buyer’s figure reads its other awards, each against its own delivery region.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 32 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid4%
2–342%
4–638%
7+15%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate23%
Within ±2%46%
Above estimate31%
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Lot #1Estimate in BDT
This lot lists only non-UK delivery addresses. Supplier examples below come from UK award history and are not checked for this delivery area.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · next expected 1 Apr 2030
- First published
- 27 Feb 2026, 09:41 GMT
- Last source update
- 9 Jul 2026, 00:51 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 31 Aug 2026
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-064432- Accelerated
- Qualifying planned procurement notice
- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area in notice
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065dd2Find a Tender
- How it runs
This will be 2-stage competitive flexible procurement exercise where mandatory qualification criteria including licenses issued by the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments, Bangladesh will be assessed at Stage-1 and passed bidders will be assessed on their submitted technical and commercial proposals for final selection of single service provider for Bangladesh operation.
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 22 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline
- 22 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
27 Feb 2026 → 1 Oct 2026 · 7 dates- Planning notice published239 days ago27 Feb 2026, 09:41 GMT
- Market engagement172 days ago5 May 2026, 23:59 BST
Interested participants can write to [email protected] expressing the interest in this tender exercise and if there are any clarification questions.
- Latest notice published108 days ago9 Jul 2026, 00:51 BST
- Tender notice expected104 days ago12 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline94 days ago22 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Award decision expected by54 days ago31 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts24 days ago1 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
5 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Feb 2026- Pipeline notice published27 Feb 2026, 09:41 GMTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published22 Apr 2026, 18:20 BSTUK2
- Planned procurement notice published6 Jul 2026, 13:38 BSTUK3
- Procurement method changed6 Jul 2026, 13:38 BST
- Planned procurement notice published9 Jul 2026, 00:51 BSTUK3
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2026-02: 1 release · 27 Feb 2026
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 (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender