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
- £101,000,000
- 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
- 075026-2025 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date24 Aug 2022
- Published19 Nov 2025Published 1183 days after the contract date
Description
This VEAT notice is to notify the market of the following: - Contract will be extended inline with the terms of the contract for the extensions (1+1) and the contract will be varied increasing the value of the contract by £31m. Original contract value £70m totalling £101m. This contract was procured in 2021 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).