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Staffing Solutions DPS (Dynamic purchasing system)

Buyer: Ipswich Borough Council →

BuyerIpswich Borough Council
StatusOpen
Deadline31 Dec 2028
ValueValue not published
Published13 Feb 2025

What is being bought

Invitation to participate in a dynamic purchasing system (DPS) to run until February 2029 to enable call off contracts to cover the full range of job roles and council requirements for temporary staffing to enable recruiting managers to act swiftly to secure their staffing needs

Delivery location

UKH14 · UKH14 · UKH14 · UKH14 · UKH14 · UKH14 · UKH14

Categories

Placement services of personnel 79610000Job search services 79611000Supply services of personnel including temporary staff 79620000Supply services of office personnel 79621000Supply services of commercial or industrial workers 79623000Recruitment services 79600000

Lot details

Administrative and clerical

Administrative and clerical

Statusactive

Award criteria
Not required at this stage — 0

Corporate and professional

Corporate and professional

Statusactive

Award criteria
Not required at this stage — 0

ICT

ICT

Statusactive

Award criteria
Not required at this stage — 0

Legal

Legal

Statusactive

Award criteria
Not required at this stage — 0

Waste and cleansing

Waste and cleansing

Statusactive

Award criteria
Not required at this stage — 0

Non-office-based roles

Non-office-based roles

Statusactive

Award criteria
Not required at this stage — 0

Senior / specialist roles (interim and permanent)

Senior / specialist roles (interim and permanent)

Statusactive

Award criteria
Not required at this stage — 0

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Supply services of office personnelNot published
2Supply services of personnel including temporary staffNot published
3Supply services of personnel including temporary staffNot published
4Supply services of personnel including temporary staffNot published
5Supply services of commercial or industrial workersNot published
6Supply services of personnel including temporary staff, Supply services of commercial or industrial workersNot published
7Placement services of personnel, Supply services of personnel including temporary staff, Job search servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Placement services of personnel (79610000); 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 7913,7414 median · 30.9 average (5,804 of 13,741 with a bid count)3.2 average (6,509 of 13,741 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKH14765 median · 18.1 average (36 of 76 with a bid count)2.7 average (37 of 76 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 requirementNo
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

  • economicSelectionCriteria
  • technicalSelectionCriteria

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04de8d
Latest release ID004896-2025
Latest release timestampThu Feb 13 2025 11:33:18 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsRestricted procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2028-12-31T11:00:00Z
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source7
Tender items in source7
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release2

Notice history

DateEventReference
13 Feb 2025tender004896-2025

All source data

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

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
13 Feb 2025 · 004896-2025 · tender
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