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title: "Kings Group Academies - GCA Lot 1 Teachers and Education Recruitment Panel"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-078c39"
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# Kings Group Academies - GCA Lot 1 Teachers and Education Recruitment Panel

Buyer: Kings Group Academies  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-078c39

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## Summary

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.

## Notice

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.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/099184-2026 |
| 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 |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 20 Oct 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 20 Oct 2026 |
| Contract period | 20 Oct 2026 - 31 Aug 2029 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £4,978,000 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | Kings Group Academies |
| Locality | PORTSMOUTH |
| Postcode area | Portsmouth |
| Postcode | PO2 0NT |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLJ South East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLJ3 Hampshire and Isle of Wight |
| ITL 3 | TLJ31 Portsmouth |
| Local authority | Portsmouth |
| Electoral ward | Copnor |
| Westminster constituency | Portsmouth North |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| 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 |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

- 79600000 - Recruitment services
- 80000000 - Education and training services

## Release History

- 20 Oct 2026 at 16:43 - Award - UK6 - Contract Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/099184-2026

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/099184-2026
  20th October 2026 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- http://Www.pinktile.co.uk
- http://u-educate.co.uk/
- http://www.advantage-education.co.uk
- http://www.berryrecruitment.co.uk
- http://www.ethos-education.com
- http://www.flourisheducation.co.uk
- http://www.hays.co.uk
- http://www.manaba.co.uk
- http://www.megalorecruit.co.uk
- http://www.prosperoteaching.com
- http://www.randstad.co.uk
- http://www.reed.com
- http://www.simplyeducation.co.uk
- http://www.teachingpersonnel.com
- http://www.visionforeducation.co.uk
- https://apolloeducationuk.com/
- https://elitesupplyservices.co.uk/
- https://engage-education.com/
- https://humly.co.uk/
- https://theeightgroup.co.uk/
- https://thinkrecruitment.co.uk
- https://tibservices.co.uk/
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages/ocds-h6vhtk-050236
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents
- https://www.supplydesk.co.uk/
- https://www.zeneducate.com/

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