Official UK procurement notice
Recruitment Agency Support · UK public procurement notice
Authority: LOW CARBON CONTRACTS COMPANY LTD (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLow Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC) have an upcoming requirement for recruitment agency support, for hiring quality staff into predominantly IT and Finance roles. LCCC have an in-house recruitment team, who successfully fill most vacancies through direct sourcing. Internal forecasting suggests that we will be recruiting for 62 specialist roles across FY27/28, FY29/30 and FY30/31, which we may find challenging to source through our typical methods.
To assist with the recruitment of these roles, we require recruitment agencies with specialist market expertise to support with the hiring of permanent roles, alongside some Fixed Term Contracts or interim roles. Our aim is for the agencies to provide a means to recruit high-quality talent, through their passive candidate networks and up-to-date candidate availability data (particularly for FTC and interim talent where agencies have greater visibility of contract end dates and immediate availability).
We anticipate that two thirds of these 62 vacancies across the 3 financial years will require specialist agency support, equating to an estimate of 41.33 across the 3 years, or 20.7 roles per year.
Please see below the total forecast 62 roles we are likely to require
QA, Software and Data Engineering, Infrastructure and DevOps: 30
Finance roles: 20
Policy roles: 9
Principal Contract Manager roles: 3
It is desirable that the agencies will also be able to support future ad hoc specialist hiring requirements arising from organisational growth, emerging business priorities/ business transformation activity, FTC workforce requirements and unforeseen workforce demands across all directorates, as may be required.
CPV: Recruitment services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How LOW CARBON CONTRACTS COMPANY LTD buys Recruitment services (CPV 7960), and who usually turns up
LOW CARBON CONTRACTS COMPANY LTD has little published record in this market. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Recruitment services (CPV 7960) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Across this market, small firms won 43% of awards with a known supplier size.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Across this market, 46% of winners were registered in the delivery region.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 80 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Across this market, at least 53% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid17%
2–317%
4–633%
7+33%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate14%
Within ±2%86%
Above estimate0%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 7960Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 258 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid13%
2–324%
4–634%
7+29%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 27 Oct 2026, 16:20 GMT
- Last source update
- 27 Oct 2026, 16:20 GMT
- Authority reference
CRN2026-032- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-101736- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0791acFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
27 Oct 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published2h ago27 Oct 2026, 16:20 GMT
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 17 days13 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
Requesting Expressions of Interest
Low Carbon Contracts Company is requesting that organisations come forward to express their interest, who would be capable of and interested in delivering part of this requirement, and if so, please can you respond to the following questions:
- Which types of roles could your organisation provide support for?
- How can we obtain the most advantageous offer from your organisation and the broader market – is your organisation able to make the most advantageous offer through an existing public procurement framework (such as the Government Commercial Agency/CCS, ESPO, YPO or alternatives) or through an Open Tender? Are there things we should be aware of when defining our Services Requirements, to drive the most advantageous offers?
- By advantageous, our first priority would be the quality of candidates we are able to recruit through these agencies, with price as our secondary priority.
- Contract startsin 155 days1 Apr 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 Oct 2026, 16:20 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender