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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

General Medical Council (GMC)

Pre-employment screening checks

Business ServicesCPV 79600000
Value£160k
Awarded28 May 2019
Published1 Oct 2019
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£160ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Business Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The GMC carries out robust pre-employment checks before a new staff member or associate can start at the GMC.

As part of these pre-employment checks, we carry out basic criminal background checks for all staff and associates on appointment and standard criminal background checks for lawyers and chartered or certified accounts.

Staff members and associates are required to complete a further basic or standard criminal background check once every four years.

We are looking for an organisation who can work with us on an ongoing basis to provide online pre-employment screening checks.

This includes ?

Basic criminal background checks for staff and associates on appointment and on rechecking once every four years from the Disclosure and Barring Service or Disclosure Scotland, ?

Standard DBS checks for lawyers and Chartered/ Certified Accountants ?

Financial checks as described above or a similar check ?

References to support our in-house team during peak periods of recruitment ?

Any other pre-employment screening services on a needs basis

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Staff members and associates are required

Staff members and associates are required to complete a further basic or standard criminal background check once every four years.

02

References to support our in-house team during

References to support our in-house team during peak periods of recruitment.

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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.

DBS checkPersonnel clearance & vetting · per person
Standard DBS checks for lawyers and Chartered/ Certified Accountants
Disclosure ScotlandPersonnel clearance & vetting · per person
Basic criminal background checks for staff and associates on appointment and on rechecking once every four years from the Disclosure and Barring Service or Disclosure Scotland,

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Stage
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