Official UK procurement notice
Temporary staff and permanent recruitment for hard to fill posts
Authority: Gloucestershire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis contract was procured for Temporary staff and permanent recruitment for hard to fill posts. This contract was procured via Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation (YPO), Lot 1 (Managing temporary recruitment for Local Authorities - Ref: 00942) for a period of 3+2 years (contract start date - 5th December 2022).
CPV: Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Temporary staff and permanent recruitment for hard to fill posts for Gloucestershire County CouncilAwarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award — no call for competition
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 22 Dec 2025, 11:24 GMT
- Last source update
- 22 Dec 2025, 11:24 GMT
- Authority reference
DN628562- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e2ed
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
- A competition has been undertaken via a framework hence no original notice published.
Publisher note: This is a variation without a new procurement procedure as defined under Regulation 72 of the The Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This variation has been undertaken on the basis of Regulation 72(1)(b), set out below: (a) A change of contractor would require an unachievable timeline due to the technical and complex nature of the contract. The economic argument for the council to grant the increase in value to an existing contract is evidenced by the significant cost of re-procurement for a short term period. (b) The technical capability to reconfigure the council's current systems and processes is another reason an extension is required to provide additional time to procure a replacement contract. Ordering, time recording and approval systems would all need to be actioned by additional staff training, many of whom would be agency workers themselves. The problem would therefore become compounded. (c) A change of contractor is not possible as a short-term measure and would result, in a potential failure to retain key agency workers and threaten the council's ability to deliver some of its statutory services, which extends beyond the statutory test of simple "inconvenience". It is also not possible to run two separate contractors supplying these services in the short term again due to the size and complexity of the agency human resource requirement. (d) The proposed modification is necessary, proportionate, and compliant with Regulation 72(1)(b). It ensures continuity, avoids unnecessary cost and disruption, and maintains the integrity of the original procurement. (e) The increase in contract value arising from the proposed modification will not exceed 50% of the value of the original contract. (f) The modification will not alter the overall nature of the contract given that it is only the volume of services being called off that will be modified, not the nature of the contract itself. (g)GCC intend to start the re-procurement imminently for the next long term requirement. The original contract is for Temporary staff and permanent recruitment for hard to fill posts. Additional necessary services have been added to the contract. The total value of the additional services are 31m. When added to the original contract value agreed at award, the revised total contract value is a sum no greater than 10100000 GBP
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics — not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comensura Limited | — | — | Awarded |
| Comensura Limited | — | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Temporary staff and permanent recruitment for hard to fill posts for Gloucestershire County Council · Comensura Limited
- Signed
- 24 Aug 2022
- Value
- £70,000,000
- Status
- active
Temporary staff and permanent recruitment for hard to fill posts · Comensura Limited
- Signed
- 24 Aug 2022
- Value
- £101,000,000
- Status
- active
- Change Nature and extent of the modifications: Awarded at the value of £70,000,00. Additional expenditure has been required. The subsequent addition of additional services to contract have raised the contact value by a further £31,000,000 GBP to a new total up to a maximum of £101,000,000 whilst a re procurement is undertaken. — Need for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor/concessionaire: Need for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor/concessionaire.
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Commensura limitedAwarded supplierView supplier profile →
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.