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The National Lottery Community Fund

C0134 Central Recruitment Contract

Business ServicesCPV 79000000
Value£800k
Awarded18 May 2026
Published12 Jun 2026
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£800ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

To support efficiency across the Fund, the Procurement Team is proposing central contracts where there is a correlation in services and where value for money can be achieved.

The central contracts will provide: • Compliant routes to market reducing the risk of challenge • Ensure that better rates are provided for by the Supplier including possible rebates should the value through the contract reach a certain amount • Compliance with HR requirements • Reduction in the time to market for the procurement of central contract services • Back-office efficiencies Direct award from ESPO 3S-22 Strategic HR Services Framework.

Total Contract term: 12 months + 12 months + 12 months.

Total Contract Value: up to and not exceeding 1,000,000.00 GBP (excluding VAT).

Initial 12-month Term Value: 800,000.00 GBP (excluding VAT).

Optional 12-month Extension 1 Value: 100,000.00 GBP (excluding VAT).

Optional 12-month Extension 2 Value: 100,000.00 GBP (excluding VAT).

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

To support efficiency across the Fund,

To support efficiency across the Fund, the Procurement Team is proposing central contracts where there is a correlation in services and where value for money can be achieved.

02

The central contracts will provide

The central contracts will provide:.

03

Ensure that better rates are provided

Ensure that better rates are provided for by the Supplier including possible rebates should the value through the contract reach a certain amount.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
a20d9dcd-a9d3-4a80-a85e-f6763418ec38
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
20260612135007-157826
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