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This contract was procured via Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation (YPO), Lot 1 (Managing temporary recruitment for Local Authorities - Ref: 00942) for a period of 3+2 years (contract start date - 5th December 2022).", "lots": [ { "id": "1", "description": "Temporary staff and permanent recruitment for hard to fill posts for Gloucestershire County Council. Originally tendered via mini competition exercise under the Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation (YPO), Lot 1 (Managing temporary recruitment for Local Authorities - Ref: 00942) for a period of 3+2 years awarded at the value of PS70,000,00. The subsequent addition of additional services to contract have raised the contact value by a further PS31,000,000 GBP to a new total at PS101,000,000.", "awardCriteria": { "criteria": [ { "name": "Quality", "type": "quality", "description": "70%" }, { "type": "price", "description": "30%" } ] }, "hasOptions": false, "status": "cancelled", "contractPeriod": { "durationInDays": 1800 } } ], "items": [ { "id": "1", "additionalClassifications": [ { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "79000000", "description": "Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security" } ], "deliveryAddresses": [ { "region": "UKK13" }, { "region": "UKK13" } ], "relatedLot": "1" } ], "procurementMethod": "limited", "procurementMethodDetails": "Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition", "coveredBy": [ "GPA" ], "procurementMethodRationaleClassifications": [ { "id": "D_OUTSIDE_SCOPE", "scheme": "TED_PT_AWARD_CONTRACT_WITHOUT_CALL", "description": "The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive" } ], "procurementMethodRationale": "A competition has been undertaken via a framework hence no original notice published." }, "awards": [ { "id": "074602-2025-DN628562-1", "relatedLots": [ "1" ], "title": "Temporary staff and permanent recruitment for hard to fill posts for Gloucestershire County Council", "status": "active", "suppliers": [ { "id": "GB-COH-04085767", "name": "Comensura limited" } ] }, { "id": "085314-2025-DN628562-1", "relatedLots": [ "1" ], "title": "Temporary staff and permanent recruitment for hard to fill posts", "status": "active", "suppliers": [ { "id": "GB-COH-04085767", "name": "Commensura limited" } ] } ], "parties": [ { "id": "GB-FTS-143856", "name": "Gloucestershire County Council", "identifier": { "legalName": "Gloucestershire County Council", "noIdentifierRationale": "notOnAnyRegister" }, "address": { "streetAddress": "Shire Hall, Westgate Street", "locality": "Gloucester", "region": "UKK13", "postalCode": "GL12TG", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "contactPoint": { "name": "Strategic Procurement", "telephone": "+44 1452425000", "email": "commercialservicescentralmailbox@gloucestershire.gov.uk" }, "roles": [ "buyer" ], "details": { "url": "https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/", "classifications": [ { "id": "REGIONAL_AUTHORITY", "scheme": "TED_CA_TYPE", "description": "Regional or local authority" }, { "id": "01", "scheme": "COFOG", "description": "General public services" } ] } }, { "id": "GB-COH-04085767", "name": "Comensura Limited", "identifier": { "legalName": "Comensura Limited", "id": "04085767", "scheme": "GB-COH" }, "address": { "locality": "Bedfordshire", "region": "UKH24", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "supplier" ], "details": { "url": "https://www.comensura.com/", "scale": "large" } }, { "id": "GB-FTS-16828", "name": "Gloucestershire County Council", "identifier": { "legalName": "Gloucestershire County Council" }, "address": { "locality": "Gloucester", "postalCode": "GL1 2TG", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "reviewBody" ] }, { "id": "GB-FTS-3499", "name": "Gloucestershire County Council", "identifier": { "legalName": "Gloucestershire County Council" }, "address": { "locality": "Gloucester", "countryName": "United Kingdom" }, "roles": [ "reviewBody" ] } ], "buyer": { "id": "GB-FTS-143856", "name": "Gloucestershire County Council" }, "contracts": [ { "id": "074602-2025-DN628562-1", "awardID": "074602-2025-DN628562-1", "title": "Temporary staff and permanent recruitment for hard to fill posts for Gloucestershire County Council", "status": "active", "value": { "amount": 70000000, "currency": "GBP" }, "dateSigned": "2022-08-24T00:00:00+01:00" }, { "id": "085314-2025-DN628562-1", "awardID": "085314-2025-DN628562-1", "title": "Temporary staff and permanent recruitment for hard to fill posts", "status": "active", "value": { "amount": 101000000, "currency": "GBP" }, "dateSigned": "2022-08-24T00:00:00+01:00", "period": { "durationInDays": 1800 }, "items": [ { "id": "1", "classification": { "scheme": "CPV", "id": "79000000", "description": "Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security" }, "deliveryAddresses": [ { "region": "UKK13" } ], "relatedLot": "1" } ], "amendments": [ { "id": "1", "description": "Nature and extent of the modifications: Awarded at the value of PS70,000,00. Additional expenditure has been required. The subsequent addition of additional services to contract have raised the contact value by a further PS31,000,000 GBP to a new total up to a maximum of PS101,000,000 whilst a re procurement is undertaken.", "rationale": "Need for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor/concessionaire: Need for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor/concessionaire." } ] } ], "bids": { "statistics": [ { "id": "1", "measure": "bids", "relatedLot": "1", "value": 3 } ] }, "language": "en", "description": "This is a variation without a new procurement procedure as defined under Regulation 72 of the The Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This variation has been undertaken on the basis of Regulation 72(1)(b), set out below: (a) A change of contractor would require an unachievable timeline due to the technical and complex nature of the contract. The economic argument for the council to grant the increase in value to an existing contract is evidenced by the significant cost of re-procurement for a short term period. (b) The technical capability to reconfigure the council's current systems and processes is another reason an extension is required to provide additional time to procure a replacement contract. Ordering, time recording and approval systems would all need to be actioned by additional staff training, many of whom would be agency workers themselves. The problem would therefore become compounded. (c) A change of contractor is not possible as a short-term measure and would result, in a potential failure to retain key agency workers and threaten the council's ability to deliver some of its statutory services, which extends beyond the statutory test of simple \"inconvenience\". It is also not possible to run two separate contractors supplying these services in the short term again due to the size and complexity of the agency human resource requirement. (d) The proposed modification is necessary, proportionate, and compliant with Regulation 72(1)(b). It ensures continuity, avoids unnecessary cost and disruption, and maintains the integrity of the original procurement. (e) The increase in contract value arising from the proposed modification will not exceed 50% of the value of the original contract. (f) The modification will not alter the overall nature of the contract given that it is only the volume of services being called off that will be modified, not the nature of the contract itself. (g)GCC intend to start the re-procurement imminently for the next long term requirement. The original contract is for Temporary staff and permanent recruitment for hard to fill posts. Additional necessary services have been added to the contract. The total value of the additional services are 31m. When added to the original contract value agreed at award, the revised total contract value is a sum no greater than 10100000 GBP" }