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UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER

Direct Award for Security Staffing under the NWUPC Framework Agreement for Security Staffing & Associated Services, Lot 2 - North West NWUPC Agreement number: EFM3197 CPC CPC Framework Reference: CPC/KB/01/2024

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79700000
Value£1.5m
Awarded10 Mar 2026
Published21 Apr 2026
RegionNorth West
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£1.5mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

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

This award notice follows University of Chester having made a direct award to Constant Security Services Ltd for the provision of Security Staffing under the CPC- Framework Agreement for Security Staffing & Associated Services, Lot 2 - North West, NWUPC Agreement Number: EFM3197 CPC .

As members of NWUPC, this direct award follows our review of the NWUPC/ CPC framework Buyers Guide and the framework's call off procedures.

Please note that all values in this award notice have been rounded up for the total potential contract value and the contract dates include one potential 12 month extension period.

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Direct Award for Security Staffing under the NWUPC Framework Agreement for Security Staffing &

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71a161ac-270a-4c10-9ac0-35a9e624011f
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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2026-Mar-02
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