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# Security screening process of pre-recruitment candidates and existing employees

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/security-screening-process-of-pre-recruitment-candidates-and-existing-employees-ocds-h6vhtk-028a5c). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED: "Security screening process of pre-recruitment candidates and existing employees". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/uk-shared-business-services-ltd-gov-ot1391)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Recruitment services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £1,300,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-028a5c`

## Before you bid
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- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/security-screening-process-of-pre-recruitment-candidates-and-existing-employees-ocds-h6vhtk-028a5c#tl-md)

## Description
Pre-employment screening is the background checking of staff, contractors, agency personnel and other people with access to the organisation's assets. Checks are conducted to validate and verify information provided by the screening candidate to ensure that they have provided an honest and factual representation to enable organisations to make the best hiring decisions.
Individuals who have access to government assets are required to be checked against the HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS).
The BPSS and supporting guidance describe the mandatory pre-employment controls required to address the problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. As well as posing serious risks to reputation, integrity and financial assets they may also be indicators of more serious national security concerns.
The screening process requires that the screening candidate provides information, usually via an online system and/or the submission of electronic documents that are then validated and cross checked to ensure that the information is correct. These checks will include reference to legal and robust sources to ensure that the information obtained relates to the named person to ensure fairness to the screening candidate and validated information to assist the organisation in making the correct decision.
Additional checks are added for specific roles, for example, a driver's licence check for the organisation's drivers.
Time scales for "Baseline" screens will be a very important element of the screening service and must meet the HR SLA screen turn around target days (Level A,B,C,D, F - 4 working days , Level E - 2 working days , Level G - 8 working days) which we currently use. This does not include the time spent waiting for the candidate to upload information, waiting for references or the time it takes to complete the criminal record checks
The successful supplier must be able to provide a 'white label type service' for the handling and management of UK SBS and UKRI users of the service. This requirements is to provide a UK SBS branded extranet system that will be used to collect and interact with users of the service. The successful supplier must have the ability to interface with the new Oracle Taleo Applicant Tracking System (ATS) or be prepared to build this capability. The ATS is planned to be implemented during Q1 2020. Taleo is a cloud-based ATS that is used to manage the talent acquisition processes.
All submissions will be assessed in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, for procurement values that exceed Regulation 5 (Threshold amounts). This procurement will be managed electronically via the e-sourcing portal Delta. The Contracting Authority expressly reserves the right(i) not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice; and (ii) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the procurement; and in no circumstances will t...
> [Read full procurement scope and specification on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/security-screening-process-of-pre-recruitment-candidates-and-existing-employees-ocds-h6vhtk-028a5c)

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete

- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 000776-2021-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Agenda Resourse Management Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-1706`
  - Value: £1,300,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 000776-2021-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,300,000
  - Signed Date: 01/12/2020

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F000776-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-01-14T14:44:11.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T23:00:34.639Z
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