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BISHOP WILKINSON CATHOLIC EDUCATION TRUST

Supply Staff Provision

Business ServicesCPV 79600000 80000000
Value£2.5m
Awarded7 May 2024
Published28 May 2025
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£2.5mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£2.7m

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

2.

CHALLENGE 2.1.

The current contractual arrangements are due to expire at the end of August 2024 and therefore appropriate compliant arrangements need to be in place to meet the Trust's requirements, including specialist roles.

2.2.

National supply and temporary staff capacity and the availability of suitable candidates within the market remain a significant challenge within the education sector.

2.3.

Keeping Children Safe in Education is critical to the Trust and therefore all suppliers must provide a consistent approach to regulatory compliance and safeguarding practice.

2.4.

Large geographical spread of schools.

2.

OBJECTIVE 2.1 This FC sets out the requirements of this procurement and provides information on how the tender process will be managed.

It also explains the clarification process and confirms the process that will be used to evaluate Tender(s).

2.2 BWCET are looking to procure suitable Supply and Temporary Staff arrangements which provide appropriate support across teaching, non-teaching and catering roles and ensures sufficient capacity to ensure effective outcomes across all schools.

2.3 BWCET are looking to increase transparency and visibility of all supply and temporary staff requirements to ensure internal and supplier processes are operationally robust for effective financial and budgetary management.

2.4 The estimated contract value is £9,000,000 over a 3-year Contract period.

Please note that this is estimated based on previous volume and therefore not guaranteed and will be based on future demand and usage.

2.5 BWCET are looking to appoint multiple Suppliers across the following structure to deliver all supply and temporary staff requirements for teaching and non-teaching roles for the full contract duration of 3 years, with the potential to increase to a 5 year agreement (+1 year, +1 year).

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The current contractual arrangements are due

The current contractual arrangements are due to expire at the end of August 2024 and therefore appropriate compliant arrangements need to be in place to meet the Trust's requirements, including specialist roles.

02

National supply and temporary staff capacity

National supply and temporary staff capacity and the availability of suitable candidates within the market remain a significant challenge within the education sector.

03

Keeping Children Safe in Education is critical

Keeping Children Safe in Education is critical to the Trust and therefore all suppliers must provide a consistent approach to regulatory compliance and safeguarding practice.

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

1 named in obligation language, 0 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Safeguarding policysays mustPolicies & commitments
Keeping Children Safe in Education is critical to the Trust and therefore all suppliers must provide a consistent approach to regulatory compliance and safeguarding practice.

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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Stage
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