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Award of Scottish Government Interim Professional Staff Services Framework - Specialist Advisor

Scottish Government

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25 Sep 2026 at 20:23

PCS Notice - Quick Quote Award
Summary of the contracting process

The Scottish Government’s Marine Directorate procured a specialist adviser through a professional staff services framework. The requirement was for a specialist individual, with proposals including CVs, rather than a broader team or defined set of deliverables. This is a personnel service for temporary specialist support. The buyer is the Scottish Government, and the Marine Directorate is the commissioning unit. The procurement information does not identify a specific delivery location, project area or technical subject for the advisory work, so its relevance depends on a supplier’s ability to provide suitable specialist professional staff to the Directorate. Venesky Brown Ltd was selected to provide the service.

The process has been awarded to Venesky Brown Ltd, and the resulting contract is recorded as active. The award value was £14,288. The award date and contract period are not recorded in the process data. The procurement was run as a quick quote under the Scottish Government’s Interim Professional Staff Services Framework; three bids were reported. The requirement is presented as a single specialist-adviser service, with no separate lots described. The stated proposal content included CVs, but no further eligibility requirements or evaluation criteria are set out. This outcome shows that the buyer selected a supplier for the specialist-adviser requirement through a framework-based competition, rather than through an open tender for a newly established service arrangement.

This award provides a relevant benchmark for recruitment and professional-staff suppliers that can source and present individual specialists for Scottish Government Marine Directorate work. To compete credibly when a comparable requirement returns to market, a supplier would need access to advisers whose experience matches the Directorate’s needs, and the ability to provide clear, tailored CVs with a proposal. The process attracted three bids, indicating competition for this kind of specialist placement. The requirement was for one specialist adviser rather than a large delivery team, so suppliers able to identify and mobilise a suitable individual may be better placed than those whose offer depends on broader staffing packages. The award was made through an existing professional staff services framework, making framework participation and an effective quick-quote response relevant commercial capabilities.»} faz? wait JSON last field punctuation quotes issue. Need ensure valid JSON, plain continuous. Word counts about notice_info 111, details 117, benefits 111. Fix stray weird final. Also avoid unsupported no specific location sentence is pointing missing, forbidden. Remove statement about location absence. But info needs where delivered only if known. Use Aberdeen? buyer address Marine lab Aberdeen not delivery location; can't infer. Rewrite info 100 words without absence mention. Current 110 less sentence 24 -> 86. Expand supported: buyer name, Marine Directorate, nature temporary personnel. no location. perhaps 100 words. No need exactly 100 if genuinely less, but enough. Could mention CPV classification. Add in plain. final valid. Details dates no award date provided; cannot say missing. Thus no sentence about not recorded. contract period no dates likewise. Need not mention absence. 98ish. Output length where genuinely less okay. We can say framework procedure known quick quote. Final. Also notice details

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Award of Scottish Government Interim Professional Staff Services Framework - Specialist Advisor

Notice Description

Marine Directorate seek proposals (including CVs) for the provision of a Specialist Advisor.

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-r6ebe6-0000839016
Publication Source
Public Contracts Scotland
Latest Notice
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=SEP565359
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
PCS Notice - Quick Quote Award
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Not specified
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

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

CPV Codes

79620000 - Supply services of personnel including temporary staff

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
£14,288 Under £100K
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
25 Sep 20261 weeks ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

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

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
Scottish Government
Additional Buyers

Consumer Scotland

Dumfries and Galloway Council

Moray Council

North Lanarkshire Council

Perth & Kinross Council

Registers of Scotland

Scottish Borders Housing Association

The Highland Council

Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
GLASGOW
Postcode
G2 8LU
Postcode Area
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
Not specified
Local Authority
Glasgow City
Electoral Ward
Anderston/City/Yorkhill
Westminster Constituency
Glasgow North

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
14
Supplier Names

Venesky Brown Ltd

NEC Software Solutions UK Limited

FRP Advisory

Mitie

Turner & Townsend

Jump Research

Chase Services Group Ltd

Houlder Limited

IFF Research

Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd

GC Insight Ltd

Amey OW Ltd

Beam Up Ltd

Gemmell & Prout Marine Limited

Further Information

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