Notice Information
Notice Title
Provision of International Student Recruitment services from Qobolak (Saudi Arabia)
Notice Description
Provision of international recruitment services for Saudi Tourism taster programme funded by Ministry of Tourism, Saudi Kingdom. Furthermore, Qobolak is appointed to promote, identify and introduce clients across the Saudi Kingdom who are interested in enrolling onto courses that are provided by City of Glasgow College. Third party arrangements are common across the Kingdom when government departments are funding activity that requires Saudi Nationals to travel & study overseas.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Provision of international recruitment services for Saudi Tourism taster programme funded by Ministry of Tourism, Saudi Kingdom. Furthermore, Qobolak is appointed to promote, identify and introduce clients across the Saudi Kingdom who are interested in enrolling on to courses that are provided by City of Glasgow College. Third party arrangements are common across the Kingdom when government departments are funding activity that requires Saudi Nationals to travel & study overseas. This award notice is to cover an initial 3 month pilot.
Procurement Information
Due to the commercial nature of this agreement and complexities of tendering the requirements, a direct route to market without competitive actions is required. After dialog with other institution re this requirement, reason for not tendering can be summarised below: The commercially sensitive nature of the requirements. Some institutions will only use certain agents and some agents will only deal with certain institutions (mainly universities). No appetite for agents to tender especially in the far east. Certain agents are affiliated with certain Ministries. In this instance, the Ministry of Tourism will only deal with Qobolak. If we did use Qobolak then this deal couldn't go ahead. Agents will not sign up to institutions terms and conditions.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000724258
- Publication Source
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Latest Notice
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAR473528
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large, SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
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- CPV Codes
79600000 - Recruitment services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £322,881 £100K-£500K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 13 Mar 20232 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 28 Feb 20232 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- CITY OF GLASGOW COLLEGE
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- deborah.fagan@cityofglasgowcollege.ac.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 1413755316
Buyer Location
- Locality
- GLASGOW
- Postcode
- G4 0RF
- Post Town
- Glasgow
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM3 West Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM32 Glasgow City
- Delivery Location
- TLM82 Glasgow City
-
- Local Authority
- Glasgow City
- Electoral Ward
- Anderston/City/Yorkhill
- Westminster Constituency
- Glasgow North East
Further Information
Notice Documents
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https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAR472432
Provision of International Student Recruitment services from Qobolak (Saudi Arabia) - Provision of international recruitment services for Saudi Tourism taster programme funded by Ministry of Tourism, Saudi Kingdom -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAR473528
Provision of International Student Recruitment services from Qobolak (Saudi Arabia) - Provision of international recruitment services for Saudi Tourism taster programme funded by Ministry of Tourism, Saudi Kingdom. Furthermore, Qobolak is appointed to promote, identify and introduce clients across the Saudi Kingdom who are interested in enrolling onto courses that are provided by City of Glasgow College. Third party arrangements are common across the Kingdom when government departments are funding activity that requires Saudi Nationals to travel & study overseas.
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