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Kings Group Academies - GCA Lot 1 Teachers and Education Recruitment Panel

Kings Group Academies

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20 Oct 2026 at 16:43

UK6 - Contract Award Notice
Summary of the contracting process

King’s Group Academies established a panel for temporary education staffing, covering short-term and long-term teacher and education recruitment and supply services. The panel is intended to provide staffing across the Trust’s constituent schools and academies. Delivery covers England, including the North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East and South West. The services combine recruitment and supply staffing rather than education or training provision. The requirement is managed by King’s Group Academies, based in Portsmouth, and sits within the Government Commercial Agency’s Supply Teachers and Education Recruitment framework, Lot 1.

The procurement is complete and the panel has been awarded to 24 suppliers: Advantage Education Recruitment, Apollo Education UK, Berry Recruitment, Eight Corp, Elite Supply Services, Engage Education, Ethos Education, Flourish Education, Hays Specialist Recruitment, Humly, Manaba, Megalo Recruit, Pink Tile Education, Prospero Group, Randstad Solutions, Reed Specialist Recruitment, Simply Education, Supply Desk, Teaching Personnel, Think Recruitment, TIB Services, U-Educate, Vision for Education and Zen Educate. The award date was 20 October 2026. The panel contract period runs from 20 October 2026 to 31 August 2029. Its gross awarded value is £4,978,000. This is a direct award under an existing framework, using a selective route, and the call-off was non-competitive. The process comprises one lot. Framework call-off terms apply; supplier margins are capped, and some panel suppliers have preferential pricing below the cap.

This award demonstrates sustained demand from a multi-academy trust for education recruitment agencies able to provide both temporary supply teachers and broader education staffing, for short and long assignments. The panel was built to support staffing across all of the Trust’s schools and academies, so credible providers need the reach and capacity to respond across a broad English footprint, not just a single local school. Suppliers must be able to meet education safeguarding standards and work within the framework’s capped margins and standard call-off terms. The buyer also secured below-cap pricing from some appointed agencies, indicating that competitive commercial terms matter alongside dependable coverage. The 24 appointed providers range from specialist and SME agencies to large national recruiters, showing that the requirement is served by suppliers of varied scale.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Kings Group Academies - GCA Lot 1 Teachers and Education Recruitment Panel

Notice Description

This Contract Award Notice records the establishment of a multi-supplier Call-Off Panel by King's Group Academies for the provision of comprehensive temporary, short-term, and long-term education recruitment and supply staffing services. This panel has been established via a compliant direct award process under the Government Commercial Agency (GCA) Framework Agreement RM6376: Supply Teachers and Education Recruitment (Lot 1). A total of 24 pre-approved framework suppliers have been appointed concurrently to this panel to secure robust staffing coverage across all current and future constituent schools and academies managed by the Trust. Contracts are executed on the standard GCA framework call-off terms, ensuring full compliance with the updated Academy Trust Handbook. While all suppliers adhere to the mandated capped supplier margins and safeguarding standards, the Trust has successfully secured further commercial savings by establishing preferential, sub-cap framework pricing tiers with a proportion of the appointed panel suppliers.

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-078c39
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/099184-2026
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK6 - Contract Award Notice
Procurement Type
Framework
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Selective
Procurement Method Details
Award under framework
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Large, SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

80 - Education and training services

CPV Codes

79600000 - Recruitment services

80000000 - Education and training services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
£4,978,000 £1M-£10M
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
20 Oct 20261 weeks ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
20 Oct 20261 weeks ago
Contract Period
20 Oct 2026 - 31 Aug 2029 2-3 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Complete
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
Kings Group Academies
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
PORTSMOUTH
Postcode
PO2 0NT
Postcode Area
Portsmouth
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLJ South East (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLJ3 Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLJ31 Portsmouth
Delivery Location
Not specified
Local Authority
Portsmouth
Electoral Ward
Copnor
Westminster Constituency
Portsmouth North

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
24
Supplier Names

Advantage Education Recruitment Limited

Apollo Education UK Limited

Berry Recruitment Limited

EIGHT CORP LTD

Elite Supply Services Ltd

Engage Education

Ethos Education Ltd

Flourish Education

Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd

HUMLY LTD

Manaba Ltd

Megalo Recruit Ltd

Pink Tile Education L:td

Prospero Group Ltd

Randstad Solutions Limited

REED SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT LIMITED

Simply Education

Supply Desk Limited

TEACHING PERSONNEL LIMITED

Think Recruitment (UK) Ltd

TIB Services Ltd

U-EDUCATE LTD

VISION FOR EDUCATION

ZEN EDUCATE LIMITED

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