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Salary benchmarking and Rewards Advisory Services

Buyer: General Pharmaceutical Council →

BuyerGeneral Pharmaceutical Council
Statusplanned
Deadline24 Oct 2025
Value£70,000
Published26 Aug 2025

What is being bought

GPhC is seeking to procure 'Salary benchmarking and Reward Advisory Services' for its employees, Governing Council , and Committee (Internal and External) members. The purpose and objectives is to: • Attract, motivate, and retain high-calibre staff and workers, Council (Board), and Committee Members. • Ensure pay equity and transparency across all roles and governance positions. • Maintain competitiveness within relevant labour markets and regulatory peer organisations. • Support strategic workforce planning and future capability needs. • Enable robust and evidence-based decisions regarding remuneration and fees for GPhC's employees, Governing Council (Board), Committee Members. This notice is issued to inform the market of an upcoming procurement opportunity, to gauge the level of market interest, and to invite constructive feedback on our prior launching the formal procurement process. We anticipate publishing the tender notice on the Find a Tender Service (FTS) via Delta eSourcing platform in October 2025. The scope of services will include the following: 1. Annual benchmarking all roles within GPhC, including: (see appendix) • Specialisms roles and grades • Governing Council Board Members • Committee members (Internal and External) 2. Services and deliverables • Benchmarking data and analysis on market insight and foresight • Total reward benchmarking - Benchmarking of salaries, fees and total reward for all employees roles, council and committee member positions. • Remuneration framework and pay modelling • Continuous improvement and advisory support 3. Methodology and approach • To undertake all appropriate surveys, enquires and investigations; thus enabling the supply of comprehensive data set(s). • Auditing and risk assessment • Recommendations GPhC are kindly invite all interested suppliers to complete and submit the attached response form to Anna Kitoki procurement@pharmacyregulation.org by 16.00 on 08 September 2025.

Delivery location

UK, GB

Categories

Feasibility study, advisory service, analysis 71241000Market research services 79310000Statistical services 79330000Business and management consultancy services 79410000Management-related services 79420000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanned
Value£70,000
Contract periodFrom 2 Jan 2026 to 1 Jan 2028
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Feasibility study, advisory service, analysis, Market research services, Statistical services, Business and management consultancy services, Management-related servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 71. The category anchor is Feasibility study, advisory service, analysis (71241000); 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 716,6124 median · 31.6 average (2,389 of 6,612 with a bid count)4.2 average (2,656 of 6,612 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer1Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK1,4824 median · 72.6 average (492 of 1,482 with a bid count)7.4 average (565 of 1,482 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)3474 median · 4 average (2 of 347 with a bid count)1 average (2 of 347 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

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-058d6e
Latest release ID051119-2025
Latest release timestampTue Aug 26 2025 08:16:34 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanned
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-10-24T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2025-10-10T17:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£70,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source1
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
26 Aug 2025planning051119-2025
26 Aug 2025planning051116-2025

All source data

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

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