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title: "The Provision of Agency and Recruitment Services"
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# The Provision of Agency and Recruitment Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/the-provision-of-agency-and-recruitment-services-ocds-h6vhtk-03179c). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** The scope of this procurement is to place an agreement for a framework supporting Recruitment Agents that can support our HR Team with headhunting, sourcing candidates and helping with fixed and permanent hires and specialisms; and, Temporary Agency support across the business functions supporting front line, stations, security, engineering etc. These shall be split into pools, to allow supplier capabilities and specialisms to be easily identifiable, making it easy to compete and identify which agencies can support specific areas of the business. Published lot titles: Agency Services; Recruitment Services.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [SE TRAINS LIMITED](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/se-trains-limited-coh-03266762)
- **Published Value:** £31,651,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 18 March 2022 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 2
- **Procurement Method:** Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Recruitment services
- **Delivery Location:** UKJ
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0025
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/the-provision-of-agency-and-recruitment-services-ocds-h6vhtk-03179c#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03179c`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **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/the-provision-of-agency-and-recruitment-services-ocds-h6vhtk-03179c#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [southeasternrailway.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.southeasternrailway.co.uk%2F)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/the-provision-of-agency-and-recruitment-services-ocds-h6vhtk-03179c#participate

## Description
The scope of this procurement is to place an agreement for a framework supporting Recruitment Agents that can support our HR Team with headhunting, sourcing candidates and helping with fixed and permanent hires and specialisms; and, Temporary Agency support across the business functions supporting front line, stations, security, engineering etc.  These shall be split into pools, to allow supplier capabilities and specialisms to be easily identifiable, making it easy to compete and identify which agencies can support specific areas of the business.

## Lots (2)
### Lot 1: Agency Services
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 79600000
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Description:** Temporary agency resourcing for engineering and customer facing staff

- **Renewal published:** yes
- **Options published:** yes

### Lot 2: Recruitment Services
- **Lot id:** `2`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 79600000
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Description:** Recruitment services for temporary, fixed term and permanent hires

- **Renewal published:** yes
- **Options published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F004352-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-02-16T09:23:34.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-02T03:53:04.949Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03179c