Official UK procurement notice
NEPO508 Agency Staff · UK public procurement notice
Authority: The Association of North East Councils Limited (Local council)·Consortium: 3 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Association of North East Councils, trading as North East Procurement Organisation (NEPO), is seeking to establish a Framework Agreement with a sole supplier; for the provision of a Vendor Neutral Managed Service for Temporary Agency Staff.
The opportunity can be accessed via the Open eTendering system. Suppliers wishing to be considered for this Framework Agreement must register their expression of interest and submit a tender through the Open eTendering System. If not already registered, candidates should register on the Open eTendering system at www.open-uk.org ↗
Tenders must be submitted using the link above. Tenders submitted via post or email methods will not be accepted.
If you need technical assistance from the Open Support team, this can be requested via open.support@nepo.org
PLEASE NOTE: Open is accessible 24/7 however, technical support is available Monday - Thursday 8:30 - 5pm and Friday 8.30 - 4.30pm
For guidance on how to submit your response through Open, please visit www.open-hub.org/training ↗ to access the available Training Guides.
NEPO does not give any guarantee and/or warrant the actual value of orders (if any) that will be placed with the successful suppliers by any Contracting Authority using the Framework Agreement pursuant to this process and accepts no liability thereof.
- Recurrence: Estimated timing for further notices to be published: 12 months prior to the published expiry date
CPV: Recruitment services · Supply services of personnel including temporary staff
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 1 suppliers · 7 bids received (7.0 per place) · 1 appointed (full)
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1NEPO are using a two-stage, restricted procedure for this procurement, set out at…AwardedRenewal
NEPO are using a two-stage, restricted procedure for this procurement, set out at Regulation 28 of the Public Contracts Regulations.
A maximum of 5 organisations will be invited to the Invitation to Tender Stage (assuming that there are at least 5 suitably qualified organisations that pass the minimum criteria) following the evaluation of Tenderer's response to the Selection Questionnaire.
If there are fewer than 5 organisations that pass the minimum criteria, then only those who pass will be invited to Invitation to Tender. If there are more than 5 organisations who pass the minimum criteria then the 5 highest scoring tenderers only, based on the scored questions within the SQ, will be invited to Invitation to Invitation to Tender. The minimum criteria are documented within Schedule 1 - Selection Questionnaire and Appendix 1 - Scoring Matrix and include a minimum threshold that must be achieved on the scored question.
Following the evaluation of Tenderer's responses to the Selection Questionnaire, successful Tenderers will be invited to Invitation to Tender. Tenderers responses to the Invitation to Tender will be evaluated against the pre-defined evaluation criteria and NEPO will seek to award to a single operator who has been identified as submitting the most economically advantageous tender.
The selection questionnaire document also contains an ITT overview that sets out the high-level requirements of the Framework Agreement. This document will allow suppliers to determine if they are interested in this opportunity and consider whether they have the required capability and capacity to deliver the Framework Agreement.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (15)
- Framework Resource: 6%
- Implementation - Project Plan: 6%
- Implementation - Agency Supply Chain Migration: 5%
- Service Delivery: 5%
- Compliance, Safeguarding and Vetting: 6%
- Supply Chain Management: 4%
- Supply Chain Performance: 5%
- Reporting and Data Assurance: 4%
- System Demonstration: 8%
- Managed Service Provider Fees: 2%
- Agency Supplier Fees: 2%
- price: 30%
- Agency Social Care: 7%
- Social Value (Qualitative): 7%
- Social Value (Quantitative): 3%
Published award criteria (15)
- Framework Resource: 6
- Implementation - Project Plan: 6
- Implementation - Agency Supply Chain Migration: 5
- Service Delivery: 5
- Compliance, Safeguarding and Vetting: 6
- Supply Chain Management: 4
- Supply Chain Performance: 5
- Agency Social Care: 7
- Reporting and Data Assurance: 4
- Managed Service Provider Fees: 2
- Agency Supplier Fees: 2
- System Demonstration: 8
- Social Value (Qualitative): 7
- Social Value (Quantitative): 3
- Price: 30
- Price carries 34 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3.4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- “NEPO508 Agency Staff” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 1 suppliers, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Restricted procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · Estimated timing for further notices to be published: 12 months prior to the published expiry date
- First published
- 24 May 2024, 15:29 BST
- Last source update
- 4 Feb 2025, 12:58 GMT
- Authority reference
79620000- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-003632- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-046b72Find a Tender
Publisher note: The agreement will be available for use by all NEPO Member Authorities and Associate Members. A list of member organisations is available in the Associate Members section of the NEPO website at: www.nepo.org. This agreement will also be made available to all current and future NEPO Associate Members. Current Associate Members are listed in the Associate Member section of the NEPO website at: https://www.nepo.org/associate-members. NEPO intends to make the resulting agreement available for use by all Contracting Authorities throughout all administrative regions of the UK (as defined by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015) including but not limited to Government Departments and their Agencies, Non-Departmental Public Bodies, Central Government, NHS Bodies, Local Authorities, Emergency Services, Coastguard Emergency Services, Educational Establishments, Registered Social Landlords and Registered Charities. A complete list of permissible users is shown on the NEPO website: http://www.nepo.org/associate-membership/permissable-users Organisations wishing to access the NEPO agreement will be required to register as a NEPO Associate Member in the first instance. Further information can be found at: www.nepo.org
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 20 Sept 2024, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Supplier levy on call-offs (max %)
- document
- Bid validity
- 120 days from the deadline
Timeline
5 Aug 2024 → 4 Feb 2025 · 3 dates- Next notice expected5 Aug 2024, 00:00 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown20 Sept 2024, 12:00 BST
- Notice published4 Feb 2025, 12:58 GMT
Notice history
7 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 Aug 2024- Published value updated to £925,000,00021 Aug 2024, 12:44 BSTwas £700,000,000
- Status changed to active21 Aug 2024, 12:44 BST
- Procurement method changed21 Aug 2024, 12:44 BST
- Deadline published: 20 Sept 2024, 12:00 BST21 Aug 2024, 12:44 BST
- Buyer details updated21 Aug 2024, 12:44 BST
- Status changed to complete4 Feb 2025, 12:58 GMT
- Buyer details updated4 Feb 2025, 12:58 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
Contract 003632-2025-1
- Signed
- 4 Feb 2025
- Value
- £925,000,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7bids | 1 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
3 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- THE ASSOCIATION OF NORTH EAST COUNCILS LIMITED T/A NEPOContracting authorityCentral purchasing bodyRegional or local authorityGeneral public services
- The Association of North East Councils, trading as North East Procurement Organisation (NEPO)Contracting authorityCentral purchasing bodyRegional or local authorityGeneral public services
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- NEPOReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
1 commercial party on the notice- Comensura LimitedFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria