HCC - 10/26 - The Provision of a Recruitment Agency Framework

Buyer
Hertfordshire County Council
Value
£46,000,000
Closes
20 November 2026
Where
Stevenage, the East of England
Type
Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)

In plain English

Hertfordshire County Council is setting up a framework, which is a pre-approved list of recruitment agencies, for ten local councils in the county to use when they need temporary or agency workers. The work is split into seven groups of job types, ranging from professional and industrial roles to social care, educational psychology and special educational needs roles. Each council then places its own individual orders with the agencies on the list.

What the buyer wants

• Submit a full tender by 12 noon on 20 November 2026, after first expressing interest and opting in to access the full tender documents through the council's e-tendering system. • Show you can supply agency workers across the lots you bid for, with specific capability for each job type, including suitable vetting and safeguarding for social care and SEND roles. • Demonstrate compliance, financial stability, insurance and data protection, and price your service in line with the pricing requirements set out in the Instructions to Tenderers and Specification.

Lots

Likely requirements

Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.

Lack of financial standing, insurance, DBS and safeguarding capability for the social care and SEND lots, or the ability to supply across multiple lots at scale, would rule out most small agencies, so bidders should check each lot's supplier limit and requirements carefully before committing.

How to bid

This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.

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