Official UK procurement notice
E007PC HR Recruitment Advertising
Authority: Essex County Council (Local council)
Sectors: Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: UK
Awarded value£200,000published contract · exc. VAT
Awarded 19 Dec 2025no call for competition
Awarded to PeopleScout Limited (trading as TMP Worldwide)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe objectives of the procurement are:
- ECC can call upon subject matter expertise and advice in relation to recruitment advertising, so that we are ahead of the curve in attracting the best and most suitable talent into our organisation.
- ECC can call also upon subject matter expertise and advice in relation to recruitment advertising for our public sector customers (as listed above).
- To ensure our talent pool population grows significantly, via effective promotion of the platform in the right channels.
- That the attraction approaches selected by ECC and our customers are underpinned by robust and clear return on investment (ROI) data to inform all future decisions
- That digital is placed at the forefront of talent attraction.
- That our methods are innovative, market leading, attention grabbing and future proof.
- That ECC is positioned in the market with a strong, clear employer value proposition and brand that continues to be articulated through specific attraction (individual and campaigns).
- That our EVP has evolved constantly, to remain fresh and exciting.
- That our brand not only represent ECC but can be re-purposed to represent specific areas of the business such as Social Care, ensuring they are able to maintain their individual identity, whilst still clearly being part of the Essex brand family.
- That ECC is informed and ready for future workforce trends and able to deliver strategic workforce planning underpinned by considered, informed and pro-active attraction techniques.
- To ensure that recruitment advertising activities reach the target audience and generate suitable candidates for recruitment exercises.
- That ECC can attract talent effectively and quickly to our known hard to fill areas, to underpin robust strategic workforce planning.
- That all services are available to ECC and any customer we represent.
CPV: Advertising and marketing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 9 Jan 2026, 11:03 GMT
- Last source update
- 9 Jan 2026, 11:03 GMT
- Authority reference
DN796394- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-001746- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060289Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
Call-off under Lot 1 of the Eastern Shires Procurement Organisation's Advertising Solutions Framework 3a_24.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecastAwards 1
Awarded value £200,0001 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 2
Contracts signed 1latest 19 Dec 2025
| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| PeopleScout Limited (trading as TMP Worldwide) | £200,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 001746-2026-E007PC HR Recruitment Advertising-1 · PeopleScout Limited (trading as TMP Worldwide)
- Signed
- 19 Dec 2025
- Value
- £200,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2bids · 2 electronic | 0 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Royal Courts of JusticeReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- PeopleScout Limited (Trading as TMP Worldwide)Awarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.