OpenStage · tender 903 days to close

WCC - Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for Second Tier Agency Staffing Requirements

Business ServicesCPV 79600000

Value£50.0m

Deadline23 Feb 2029

Published20 Feb 2025

RegionNationwide

Timeline

Published 20 Feb 2025903 days leftCloses 23 Feb 2029

Who to contact

procurement@warwickshire.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit

Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context

£50.0mtotal contract value

median £66k

this tender£0£54.0m

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.

When this comes round again

Warwickshire County Council publishes Business Services work continuously — 32 notices, roughly one every 58 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

17% of Warwickshire County Council’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

Which is the argument for getting on the list rather than winning this one. The incumbent is rarely the last winner — it is the roster. See the retention odds by category →

Match for your company

Sign up free to see how well this tender matches your company — the score, the signals that align, and where the gaps are.

The brief

This notice involves the setting up of a dynamic purchasing system.

Warwickshire County Council invites applications for second tier agency staffing requirements.

The DPS is designed to supplement the Council's primary agency staffing contract and will be utilised when the primary contract has been unable to successfully meet a specific requirement.

The DPS will consist of 18 Lots.

The period of validity of the DPS will be 4 years from commencement.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market

WCC - Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for Second Tier Agency Staffing Requirements

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.

What it takes to bid this

45–80 daysof bid-team effort

£30.8k–£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

Hold at bidProfessional indemnity insurance
Show at bidNamed engagement team with CVs
Show at bidComparable references / case studies
Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

Short a bid team? Get matched and we’ll help you scope the bid →

Buyer intelligence

Make the case to bid

Reveal who to approach at Warwickshire County Council, and generate a go-to-market strategy from their news, accounts and people.

Free to start. Named contacts come from published notices; the strategy is generated from the buyer’s news, accounts and people.

Deep dive · beta

The full intelligence dossier

Our agent reads Warwickshire County Council’s accounts, hunts live signals, finds the people who decide — and hands you a bid strategy plus a go-to-market influence plan, including what your team should post this week. You approve every paid step.

Five included while we’re in beta, and the agent asks before it spends on any paid step.

Source & provenance