Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 5 Jun 2025, 12:01 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Request for Information: Permanent Recruitment Services

Official notice

Authority: NATIONAL GAS TRANSMISSION PLC

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 24 Aug 2028 · up to 24 Aug 2029 with extensions · starts 25 Aug 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Purpose: National Gas Transmissions owns, manages, and operates the National Transmission System (NTS) in Great Britain, making gas available when and where it's needed. We operate from over 21 locations across the United Kingdom with a mix of offices, control centres and compressor stations. We typically recruit for employees across administrative/business services, engineering, technical (specialist) and operational roles. Please note that our roles can be location based. We also have a Major Programmes function covering People, Finance, Major Project Delivery, Delivery Engineering, Supply Chain and Commercial and will expect to recruit for roles within this function as part of this initiative.

Following the full separation from National Grid, we are in a period of increased growth and expect a direct impact on our recruitment needs in the near future. We operate a regulated procurement function here at NGT and therefore expect to contract via a compliant solution. We would be seeking to maintain flexibility with regard to the solution to ensure its fit for purpose for NGT.

Instructions: We are seeking information from potential bidders to better understand your capabilities, interests, and preferences as part of our initiative to enhance engagement with recruitment agencies for sourcing permanent resources.

Please complete the following survey by Monday 16 June 2025. Your responses will help shape our procurement process and ensure a successful partnership.

CPV: Recruitment services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 25 Aug 2025 – 24 Aug 2028 (3 yrs) · up to 24 Aug 2029 with extensions
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
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
Unspecified in notice
First published
5 Jun 2025, 12:01 BST
Last source update
5 Jun 2025, 13:13 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-030228
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Recruitment services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05436a Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

5 Jun 2025 → 25 Aug 2025 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    5 Jun 2025, 12:01 BST
  2. Market engagement
    16 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST

    As part of our ongoing commitment to excellence in talent acquisition, we are launching a new procurement initiative to review the contracting arrangement for the provision of permanent recruitment services across our organisation.

    Our aim is to leverage market expertise alongside our internal insights to create a contracting arrangement that meets both our operational needs and the market's service capabilities. We believe that the supplier's role in this early dialogue is crucial to the success of this initiative.

    We are conducting this RFI exercise via the Achilles tool. Registration is via our website: www.nationalgas.com/about-us/our-suppliers ↗

    Suppliers are required to navigate to "Register Here" to complete the Achilles registration.

    If the supplier anticipates that the Achilles tool as a means of conducting this RFI exercise is a barrier to its participation, please kindly notify us via email at [email protected] with "Perm PSL" in the subject title.

  3. Contract starts
    25 Aug 2025, 00:00 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 5 Jun 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    5 Jun 2025, 12:01 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    5 Jun 2025, 13:13 BST
    UK2

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

NATIONAL GAS TRANSMISSION PLC

Contracting authorityPrivate utility GB-COH: 02006000 · GB-PPON: PBXW-9626-VNZM National Grid House Warwick Technology Park, Warwick, West Midlands, CV34 6DAContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure