Official UK procurement notice
Pre Employment Checks · UK public procurement notice
Authority: CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED (Public body)
Sectors: Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: North East (UKC12)
Published estimate£30,000≈ £10k / year · £36,000 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 2 Nov 202612:00 GMT · 6 days left
Contract term 3 yrsends 29 Nov 2029 · starts 30 Nov 2026
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCPI are looking to appoint a suitably experienced contractor to provide a Pre Employment Checks service.
The checks that CPI mainly request are outlined below, however please note that this list is not exhaustive:
Driving Licence Check
Directors Search
Occupational History Check 1-10 yrs
Adverse Financial Check
Education Reference Check
Employer Reference Check
Personal Reference Check
RTW
DBS
ID Check
Professional Technical
End-to-End BPSS Check: Provides a single, consolidated BPSS report for each candidate.
The successful contractor will need to have an easy-to-use on-line portal to raise requests for various pre-employment checks and be able to get outcomes of the checks, as well as understanding the status of the requests.
CPV: Recruitment services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1CancelledPublished value£30,000
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).
How bids were scored
Published sub-criteria (4)
- Service Delivery and Portal Functionality: 30%
- Information Security and System Performance: 15%
- Contract and Risk Management: 15%
- Pricing: 40%
Published award criteria (4)
- Service Delivery and Portal Functionality: In their response to the tender, bidders should indicate in the response to tender questionnaire. • Please detail your capability to deliver the full range of mandatory pre-employment checks outlined in the specification. Provide a demonstration, or detailed description, of your online portal, showcasing how requests are raised, check statuses are tracked, and how outcomes are securely retrieved. • Please detail your capability to run end-to-end BPSS checks and deliver a clear, single outcome report. Your response should outline how your system manages all four core pillars of the standard (Identity, Right to Work, Criminal Records, and Employment History) within a single consolidated workflow.
- Information Security and System Performance: Please outline your cyber security and infrastructure arrangements by confirming your ability to support user authentication via SSO. Your response must include proof of a Bonafide UK or International Information Security accreditation held by your organisation (such as ISO 27001 or equivalent), a description of your data architecture, the security measures protecting primary and backup storage facilities, and exactly who within your organisation will have access to CPI data.
- Contract and Risk Management: Please describe your approach to contract and risk management in relation to the delivery of pre employment screening and checking services, ensuring you address data protection and regulatory compliance. Your response must include your standard turnaround and lead times for delivering routine, ad-hoc, and urgent reports (defined as within 24 hours), explaining the operational mechanisms used to ensure these deadlines are consistently met. Additionally, provide sample reports and describe your quality control processes for guaranteeing data accuracy. Finally, outline your formal protocol for managing, escalating, and resolving account-related issues.
- Pricing
What this means for your bid
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Cancelled
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 12 Oct 2026, 16:32 BST
- Last source update
- 19 Oct 2026, 15:44 BST
- Authority reference
3490- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-096265- Latest notice
- Procurement termination notice (UK12)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0785fbFind a Tender
Contract terms
- Reserved participation area
- K02000001
How it was run
Official noticeRun through: In-tend · Who buys & how to bid on In-tend
Access & registration note: Free · one account per buying organisation's portal · reCAPTCHA on signup
- Submission deadline
- 2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Timeline
12 Oct 2026 → 30 Nov 2026 · 4 dates- Tender notice published14 days ago12 Oct 2026, 16:32 BST
- Latest notice published7 days ago19 Oct 2026, 15:44 BST
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Submission deadlinein 6 days2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 33 days30 Nov 2026
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 12 Oct 2026- Tender notice published12 Oct 2026, 16:32 BSTUK4
- Procurement termination notice published19 Oct 2026, 15:44 BSTUK12
- Status changed to cancelled19 Oct 2026, 15:44 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecastAwards 1
| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| supplier not published | — | 19 Oct 2026 | CancelledThe notice ref 2026/S 000-096265, was created and published in error, the information in the notice does not reflect the process that CPI is running for this service and should be disregarded. |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices published for this procedure
- Procurement termination notice Procurement termination notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender