Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Gloucestershire County Council · Regional or local authority
- Supplier
- Comensura Ltd
- Value
- £70,000,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security (CPV 79000000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 074602-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date24 Aug 2022
- Published18 Nov 2025Published 1182 days after the contract date
Description
This contract was procured for Temporary staff and permanent recruitment for hard to fill posts. This contract was procured via Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation (YPO), Lot 1 (Managing temporary recruitment for Local Authorities - Ref: 00942) for a period of 3+2 years (contract start date - 5th December 2022).
About the supplier
Comensura Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 04085767).