{ "tag": [ "compiled" ], "id": "ocds-h6vhtk-0367a6-2022-09-12T12:05:18+01:00", "date": "2022-09-12T12:05:18+01:00", "ocid": "ocds-h6vhtk-0367a6", "description": "To view this notice, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=715078701 GO Reference: GO-2022912-PRO-20942634", "initiationType": "tender", "tender": { "id": "RHUL-23029", "legalBasis": { "id": "32014L0024", "scheme": "CELEX" }, "title": "Agent Channel Student Recruitment Services", "status": "complete", "classification": { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "80300000", "description": "Higher education services" }, "mainProcurementCategory": "services", "description": "Management of Agent Channel student recruitment for the university, and the admission of these students in the majority of territories the university operates in", "lots": [ { "id": "1", "description": "The exclusive third-party provider of the Marketing, Recruitment and Admissions Solution to International Students on behalf of the University recruited through the agent channel with the exclusion of Australia, New Zealand, North America and Western Europe", "awardCriteria": { "criteria": [ { "name": "Please see Annex D", "type": "quality", "description": "100" }, { "name": "Please see Annex D", "type": "cost", "description": "100" } ] }, "hasOptions": false, "status": "cancelled" } ], "items": [ { "id": "1", "deliveryAddresses": [ { "region": "UKI" } ], "deliveryLocation": { "description": "LONDON" }, "relatedLot": "1" } ], "procurementMethod": "limited", "procurementMethodDetails": "Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition", "coveredBy": [ "GPA" ], "procurementMethodRationaleClassifications": [ { "scheme": "TED_PT_AWARD_CONTRACT_WITHOUT_CALL", "id": "D_TECHNICAL", "description": "The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons" } ], "procurementMethodRationale": "The contract value is gross of onwards agent commission and taxes and provides target levels for increased international student recruitment of over the contract duration, including certain minimum guaranteed financial performance levels in the first two Academic Years of the contract. Increasing overseas student recruitment immediately is critical to the success of our strategic vision. The University currently contracts with 100 different agents across the world, all of whom have contracts with Study Group for the recruitment of students to the Royal Holloway University of London International Study Centre (operated in collaboration with Study Group). Study Group in turn works with circa 2,900 agents worldwide. Contracting with Study Group Limited to provide the majority of our agent-based recruitment activity will deliver an immediate and substantial increase in scale without the need for additional training of staff or agents. It is our view that it is not possible for another provider to achieve the required performance in the timescale required which would deliver the immediate increase in scale of this contract for Agent Channel recruitment. The University's pathway programmes are run by Study Group Limited who operate out of the University's premises and with whom the University already has a long-standing and established working relationship developed over the past 10 years. The University considers that Study Group has the specific expertise at its disposal to deliver the service, given that it already has a dedicated admissions team and sales and marketing resources located in over 40 global locations devoted to the recruitment of students for the University via the Royal Holloway University of London International Study Centre and the necessary systems in place to be able to deliver the services seamlessly without the need for further training. The Negotiated Procedure Without Prior Publication has been utilised for the above reasons. It is expected that any future requirement for this service after the end of this contract will be openly procured if the approach is successful and the market for these services has matured." }, "awards": [ { "id": "025503-2022-1", "relatedLots": [ "1" ], "status": "active", "suppliers": [ { "id": "GB-FTS-63350", "name": "Study Group Limited" } ] } ], "parties": [ { "id": "GB-FTS-6180", "name": "Royal Holloway and Bedford New College", "identifier": { "legalName": "Royal Holloway and Bedford New College" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Egham Hill", "locality": "Egham", "region": "UKI", "postalCode": "TW20 0EX", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "contactPoint": { "telephone": "+44 1784917645", "email": "procurement@rhul.ac.uk" }, "roles": [ "buyer" ], "details": { "url": "https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/", "classifications": [ { "scheme": "TED_CA_TYPE", "id": "BODY_PUBLIC", "description": "Body governed by public law" }, { "scheme": "COFOG", "id": "09", "description": "Education" } ] } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-63350", "name": "Study Group Limited", "identifier": { "legalName": "Study Group Limited", "id": "02325576" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Brighton Study Centre 1, Billinton Way", "locality": "Brighton", "region": "UKJ21", "postalCode": "BN1 4LF", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "scale": "large" } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-88", "name": "Royal Courts of Justice", "identifier": { "legalName": "Royal Courts of Justice" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Strand", "locality": "London", "postalCode": "WC2A 2LL", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "reviewBody" ] } ], "buyer": { "id": "GB-FTS-6180", "name": "Royal Holloway and Bedford New College" }, "contracts": [ { "id": "025503-2022-1", "awardID": "025503-2022-1", "status": "active", "value": { "amount": 25000000, "currency": "GBP" }, "dateSigned": "2022-09-11T00:00:00+01:00" } ], "bids": { "statistics": [ { "id": "1", "measure": "bids", "relatedLot": "1", "value": 1 } ] }, "language": "en" }