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The Elliot Foundation Academies Trust - Payroll and HR Admin Services

Buyer: The Elliot Foundation Academies Trust →

BuyerThe Elliot Foundation Academies Trust
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published18 Aug 2025

What is being bought

The Elliot Foundation Academies Trust is currently out to tender for the provision of Payroll and HR Administration Services.The contract is being offered for three years with the option to extend for a further two periods of 12 months. The contract commencement date is 31 October 2025.

Delivery location

UKI

Categories

Payroll management services 79211110Personnel and payroll services 79631000Personnel and payroll services 79631000

Lot details

Lot 1

The Elliot Foundation Academies Trust is currently out to tender for the provision of Payroll and HR Administration Services.The contract is being offered for three years with the option to extend for a further two periods of 12 months. The contract commencement date is 31 October 2025. Additional information: The duration detailed above includes the initial term of three years as well as the two optional contract extension periods of 12 months each.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
All criteria are stated only in the procurement documents — 75
price — 25

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Personnel and payroll services, Payroll management servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Payroll management services (79211110); 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 795,1493 median · 32.2 average (1,567 of 5,149 with a bid count)2.9 average (1,756 of 5,149 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKI4063 median · 14.3 average (139 of 406 with a bid count)1.9 average (148 of 406 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 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.

Awards

Contracts

Payroll, HR Admin and Associated Services

Statusactive
Value£623,469

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04e5e5
Latest release ID049527-2025
Latest release timestampMon Aug 18 2025 13:25:37 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsRestricted procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
18 Aug 2025award, contract049527-2025
21 Feb 2025tender006539-2025

All source data

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

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
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21 Feb 2025 · 006539-2025 · tender
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