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Ordnance Survey

Managed Service Provider - Neutral Vendor for Contingent Workers, Permanent Recruitment and Statement of Works - AWARD

Business ServicesCPV 79000000
Value£28.0m
Awarded23 Sept 2024
Published21 Jan 2025
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£28.0mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£30.2m

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

Contracts Finder Award Notice Information for Notice Title of Contract - Managed Service Provider (Neutral Vendor) for Contingent Workers, Permanent Recruitment Services and Statement of Works Value of Contract - £28 million Contract Start Date - 1 April 2025 Contract End Date - 31 March 2027 Contract Type - Service Contract Procedure Type - Further Competition through ESPO MSTAR4 Framework (Lot 1A - Neutral Vendor) Description - Ordnance Survey Ltd (OS) is Britain's mapping agency and is responsible for the surveying, production, maintenance and marketing of a wide range of geographic information, relied on by government, business and individuals.

Ordnance Survey (OS) has appointed a Managed Service Provider (MSP) to provide temporary agency workers, permanent recruitment services and statement of works requirements under a neutral vendor model to OS.

The supply of potential workers under Hire-Train-Deploy is also included within the scope of this contract.

The scope of the contract will also include the option for overseas engagement of Temporary Agency Workers or statement of works requirements.

The contract will be for two years with the option to extend annually for a further two years (2+1+1).

Therefore, if all extensions were taken the full length of the contract would be for four years.

The value of the contract is being set at up to £7m per annum.

This contract does not provide any exclusivity for the supply of the Services.

OS does not guarantee any minimum quantities or value of Services during the term of the contract to the Managed Service Provider.

OS does not guarantee that £7m will be spent per annum and this is being set as a maximum limit for the purpose of setting a contract value.

Ordnance Survey completed this procurement as a Further Competition through the framework 653F_23 ESPO Managed Services for Temporary Agency Resources (MSTAR4) and Lot 1a - Neutral (Neutral Vendor).

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Ordnance Survey Ltd (OS) is Britain's mapping

Ordnance Survey Ltd (OS) is Britain's mapping agency and is responsible for the surveying, production, maintenance and marketing of a wide range of geographic information, relied on by government, business and individuals.

02

Ordnance Survey (OS) has appointed a Managed

Ordnance Survey (OS) has appointed a Managed Service Provider (MSP) to provide temporary agency workers, permanent recruitment services and statement of works requirements under a neutral vendor model to OS.

03

The supply of potential workers under Hire-Train-Deploy

The supply of potential workers under Hire-Train-Deploy is also included within the scope of this contract.

04

This contract does not provide any exclusivity

This contract does not provide any exclusivity for the supply of the Services.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

ESPO / YPO / NEPOFrameworks & routes to market
Procedure Type - Further Competition through ESPO MSTAR4 Framework (Lot 1A - Neutral Vendor)

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Source & provenance
OCID
b9313aca-e590-47a5-8b3b-ed321c1d5b90
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
IT-556-223-BS.0223 - AWARD
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