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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Commercial Services

DPS for PSL

Business ServicesCPV 79620000
Value£45.0m
Awarded14 Sept 2015
Published15 Jun 2015
RegionSouth East
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£45.0mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£48.6m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Commercial Services is one of the largest trading organisations of its kind in Europe with a turnover in excess of £600 million and employing over 700 people from its base in Kent.

Tracing its roots back to 1902, as an education stores department for Kent County Council, Commercial Services has subsequently grown organically to supply an ever-increasing range of best value goods and services to other publicly funded organisations.

These include local government, education establishments, the care sector and the emergency services.

Connect2Kent (C2K) operates as a managed service provider recruitment business within Commercial Services dealing with temporary, contract and interim vacancies for the public sector.

As a member of the REC, C2K operate to the highest standards of best practice in recruitment.

In accordance with best procurement practice, EU and UK Procurement Directives and Regulations, C2K wishes to create a Framework Agreement (the Agreement) for temporary worker agencies for preferred supplier listing status.

The procurement process adopted by C2K is based upon the 'Dynamic Purchasing System' as detailed in The Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

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Tracing its roots back to 1902, as

Tracing its roots back to 1902, as an education stores department for Kent County Council, Commercial Services has subsequently grown organically to supply an ever-increasing range of best value goods and services to other publicly funded organisations.

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Stage
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