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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 1 hour ago Contract notice

Executive Recruitment Framework

Open United Kingdom Business services

Buyer Stoke on Trent City Council

19 days left

Key facts

Closes
12:00 (UTC)
Estimated value
€200,418
converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 19 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

19 days from publication to deadline

Shorter than usual

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, below the EU threshold) give a median of 26 days, half of them between 20 and 31 days, based on 2,363 notices of the last two years. Fewer days than three in four comparable notices. Check the documents early and ask questions before the clarification deadline.

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Summary

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Stoke-on-Trent City Council is carrying out preliminary market engagement ahead of a procurement for Executive Recruitment Services. The Council plans to establish a multi-supplier framework to support recruitment of permanent senior leadership roles, including Chief Officers, Corporate Directors, Directors and Heads of Service. Services may include executive search, candidate attraction, advertising and campaign management, market mapping, assessment and selection support, interview and appointment support, offer negotiation, and diversity and inclusion initiatives. The Council wishes to understand current market capabilities, operating models, commercial approaches and emerging best practice. The procedure involves market engagement before a later procurement exercise.

Description

Stoke-on-Trent City Council seeks to establish a multi-supplier Executive framework to support the recruitment to permanent senior leadership positions across the organisation. The framework is expected to support recruitment of roles including but not limited to, Chief Officers,Corporate Directors, Directors and Heads of Service. For further information and access to tender documents please go to: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=34b77bbb-2fcd-f111-8141-6045bdf14b1f&p=08c1102f-61ba-e711-80e6-005056b64545

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  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €200,418.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Business services.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    19 days left, 13 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €7,691 and €174,948.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 30 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

Official source

Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 2,000 awards for Business services in United Kingdom.

This notice
€200,418
Median award
€53,192
Middle half of past awards
€7,691 to €174,948

The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

The buyer

Full buyer profile

Stoke on Trent City Council

United Kingdom

notices in the register
30
awards
14

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
10
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
30%

Based on 10 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Business services - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
Venesky Brown Ltd 82 €17.4M Oct 2026
Promar International Ltd 48 €277,984 Sep 2026
Harvey Nash Limited 34 €6.3M Oct 2026
Lorien Resourcing Ltd 27 €7.0M Aug 2026
Reed Specialist Recruitment Limited 27 €5.9M Sep 2026

Based on 2250 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

5 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 48% of the open notices in Business services across Europe.

open now in Business services
4,457
median open notice
€215,000

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Business services

different companies won awards here
959
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
7%
buyers awarded contracts here
455

Based on 2,244 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

Change history

Every time an official source republished this notice with different content. We watch every source we index, including regional copies of the same notice.

  1. Read before bidding
    Status
    Was: Upcoming
    Now: Open
    Estimated value
    Was: €196,606
    Now: €200,418 +2%
    Submission deadline
    not stated
    Now: November 10, 2026, 12:00
    Scope and criteria
    The description was shortened. Re-read it before you bid.
    Procedure
    not stated
    Now: Open procedure

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