Official UK procurement notice
Soft Market Test for Temporary Recruitment Agency Services.
Authority: Leicestershire County Council (Local council)
Sectors: Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: East Midlands (UKF2)
Published estimate£100,000,000exc. VAT
Submissions closed 19 Jan 2026
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSoft Market Test for Temporary Recruitment Agency Services.
Please note this is not an opportunity to tender but is an information gathering exercise to inform the Councils future requirement.
Any future procurement will likely be run as a further competition of ESPO MSTAR4.
CPV: Recruitment services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Renewal
What it takes to wini
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).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
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).
Conditions of participation1
- Suitability
n/a
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes
- First published
- 19 Dec 2025, 11:18 GMT
- Last source update
- 19 Dec 2025, 11:18 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 19 Jan 2026 – …
- Authority reference
DN801376- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-084796- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05fa1dFind a Tender
How it was run
Official noticeRun through: ProContract (Due North) · Who buys & how to bid on ProContract
Access & registration note: Free · short registration with manual review; public opportunity list
- Submission deadline
- 19 Jan 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 19 Jan 2026, 13:00 GMT
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Timeline
19 Dec 2025 → 19 Jan 2026 · 3 dates- Notice published315 days ago19 Dec 2025, 11:18 GMT
- Submission deadline284 days ago19 Jan 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Bids opened284 days ago19 Jan 2026, 13:00 GMT
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.