Notice Information
Notice Title
Contract For International End to End Recruitment Partner
Notice Description
Contract Publication Notice Contract For International End to End Recruitment Partner Requirement The University of Winchester (UOW) is currently seeking to grow international students from September 2025, with a strategic aim to progressively grow numbers year on year. To date the University has been successful through a small, dedicated team of international staff to establish a student population of 255 international students. The University of Winchester has been providing higher education in the UK since 1840. With specialism in teacher training (rated Outstanding by Ofsted), nursing, psychology, business management, accountancy, criminology, law, history, and film production amongst other subject areas
Lot Information
Lot 1
Renewal: 2 Year Contract with an option to extend for a further 2 Years + 1 Year.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04f6fe
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/045418-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK7 - Contract Details Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- SME, VCSE
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
-
- CPV Codes
79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £8,000,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £8,000,000 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- £8,000,000 £1M-£10M
- Contracts Value
- £8,000,000 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 1 Aug 20256 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 15 Apr 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 27 Apr 202510 months ago
- Contract Period
- 17 Jun 2025 - 2 Jun 2027 1-2 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- andrew.gannon@winchester.ac.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- HAMPSHIRE
- Postcode
- SO22 4NR
- Post Town
- Southampton
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLJ South East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLJ3 Hampshire and Isle of Wight
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLJ36 Central Hampshire
- Delivery Location
- TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England)
-
- Local Authority
- Winchester
- Electoral Ward
- St Paul
- Westminster Constituency
- Winchester
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/045418-2025
1st August 2025 - Contract details notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/017701-2025
29th April 2025 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/010532-2025
20th March 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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