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C0134 Central Recruitment Contract
Authority: The National Lottery Community Fund
CPV: Recruitment services (79600000)
Published contract value£800,000Exc. VAT
Contract ends 31 May 2027
Awarded to Starfish Search Limited
Contract starts 1 Jun 2026
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTo support efficiency across the Fund, the Procurement Team is proposing central contracts where there is a correlation in services and where value for money can be achieved.
The central contracts will provide:
- Compliant routes to market reducing the risk of challenge
- Ensure that better rates are provided for by the Supplier including possible rebates should the value through the contract reach a certain amount
- Compliance with HR requirements
- Reduction in the time to market for the procurement of central contract services
- Back-office efficiencies
Direct award from ESPO 3S-22 Strategic HR Services Framework.
Total Contract term: 12 months + 12 months + 12 months.
Total Contract Value: up to and not exceeding 1,000,000.00 GBP (excluding VAT).
Initial 12-month Term Value: 800,000.00 GBP (excluding VAT).
Optional 12-month Extension 1 Value: 100,000.00 GBP (excluding VAT).
Optional 12-month Extension 2 Value: 100,000.00 GBP (excluding VAT).
Published procurement details
- Procedure
- Direct award
- Buyer reference
- 20260612135007-157826
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- No
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Direct
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- British Oversea Territories; Channel Islands; Europe; Isle of Man; Rest of the World; United Kingdom
Key dates
Published dates- Award decision1 May 2026
- Contract starts1 Jun 2026
- Notice published12 Jun 2026
- Contract ends31 May 2027
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- The National Lottery Community FundContracting authority
Suppliers named on the notice
- Starfish Search LimitedSupplier
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- Large
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-86590a61-32ac-4d32-b749-656b196e4b8d-2026-06-12T13:50:12+01:00
- Published
- 12 Jun 2026
- Latest update
- 12 Jun 2026
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-86590a61-32ac-4d32-b749-656b196e4b8d
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-86590a61-32ac-4d32-b749-656b196e4b8d-1