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Crescent Purchasing Consortium Limited

Preliminary Market Engagement - HR, Payroll and DBS Screening Services

Business ServicesCPV 79631000
Value£3,000,000
Deadline
Published13 Mar 2026
RegionNationwide

£3,000,000 — stated in the notice

Who to contact
Katie Swain
k.swain@thecpc.ac.uk
0161 974 0952

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£3.0mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£3.2m

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.

When this comes round again

Crescent Purchasing Consortium Limited publishes Business Services work continuously — 15 notices, roughly one every 40 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

94% of Crescent Purchasing Consortium Limited’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

This preliminary market engagement process precedes the retender of the HR, Payroll and Employee Screening Services which went live in 2022.

This process will allow CPC to consider the changes enacted under the Procurement Act 2023 and how we may use that legislation to design a route to market which is modern and market relevant.

A suggested Lot structure have been included within this notice but will be determined through this preliminary market engagement process.

Framework length and dates have also not been decided upon at this time.

Please see the attached document "Preliminary Market Engagement HR, Payroll and DBS Screening Services" for more information.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

DBS checkPersonnel clearance & vetting · per person
Preliminary Market Engagement - HR, Payroll and DBS Screening Services

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0669bf
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
022951-2026
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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