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Reading Borough Council

Managed Service for Temporary Agency Staff - (ESPO 653F_23 Lot 1b Master ('Master Vendor') ONLY) - AWARD

Business ServicesCPV 79000000
Value£45.0m
Awarded13 Sept 2024
Published26 Nov 2024
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

The Council is using this invitation tender to conduct a further competition exercise underneath ESPO Framework Agreement reference 653F_23 for the provision of Managed Services for Temporary Agency Resources.

All suppliers awarded on lot 1b of the framework are invited to submit a tender.

All tenders received (that are compliant i.e. submitted in accordance with the tendering instructions) will be evaluated in accordance with the evaluation criteria as set out below.

Overview The Council and our children's services company, Brighter Futures for Children (BFfC), combined currently spend about £13,000,000 p.a. on the provision of temporary agency staff.

This contract will supply both organisations with the Council managing the contract on behalf of BFfC.

In this present instance, Reading Borough Council is issuing this Invitation to Tender as a Further Competition under Lot 1b of ESPO's Managed Services for Temporary Agency Resources Framework (reference 653F_15).

Full details of the requirement can be found in the Specification.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

This contract will supply both organisations

This contract will supply both organisations with the Council managing the contract on behalf of BFfC.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

2 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

ESPO / YPO / NEPOFrameworks & routes to market
Managed Service for Temporary Agency Staff - (ESPO 653F_23 Lot 1b Master ('Master Vendor') ONLY) - AWARD
Framework agreement (any)Frameworks & routes to market
The Council is using this invitation tender to conduct a further competition exercise underneath ESPO Framework Agreement reference 653F_23 for the provision of Managed Services for Temporary Agency Resources.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
OCID
7ba53b58-b15a-4b8f-a9a3-952821bea474
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
IT-278-1998-RBC 00001998 - AWARD
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