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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Royal Berkshire Fire Authority

Specialist Consultants

Business ServicesCPV 79000000
Value£750,000
Awarded25 Sept 2023
Published11 Oct 2023
RegionUK-wide

£750,000 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£750ktotal 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

Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service (RBFRS) has a need to use additional expertise to provide support and capacity or cover a gap in the skills of the workforce.

These consultants may be appointed to work on a project or assist with a programme of work.

In addition the Authority uses a range of small specialists to provide training to staff.

All work offered to consultants under this framework is checked to ensure it is outside of the IR35 regulatory framework.

Authority Direct Awarded the contract utilising YPO framework 1141 - Managing Consultancy and Professional Services as a single source framework to Reed Specialist Recrutiment Ltd.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service (RBFRS)

Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service (RBFRS) has a need to use additional expertise to provide support and capacity or cover a gap in the skills of the workforce.

02

In addition the Authority uses a range

In addition the Authority uses a range of small specialists to provide training to staff.

03

All work offered to consultants under this

All work offered to consultants under this framework is checked to ensure it is outside of the IR35 regulatory framework.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

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
Authority Direct Awarded the contract utilising YPO framework 1141 - Managing Consultancy and Professional Services as a single source framework to Reed Specialist Recrutiment Ltd.
IR35 / off-payroll workingContract conditions
All work offered to consultants under this framework is checked to ensure it is outside of the IR35 regulatory framework.

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
90b7b255-6725-4437-80c4-bf76901b73bd
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
20231011085307-71935
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