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OpenStage · tender

BRITISH COUNCIL(THE)

Tech Staff Augmentation

IT ServicesCPV 72220000
Value£45.0m
Deadline
Published24 Mar 2026
RegionNationwide
Contract value in context
£45.0mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£48.6m

This is a large award for IT Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The British Council is seeking to established a Closed framework for 4-6 suppliers, on a 2+2+2 basis.

This initiative will enable the organisation to complement internal teams with external expertise, ensuring it can respond quickly to evolving business and technology demands.

Through this procurement, the British Council intends to establish contractual relationships with specialist suppliers who will deliver specific statements of work, as issued through the framework award process.

All professionals will remain employed and managed by the supplier(s) but will be rapidly deployed to deliver specific British Council project delivery needs.

Suppliers will be expected to provide suitably qualified and experienced professionals across the following areas of expertise, including but not limited to: Software Engineering, DevOps/SRE, Quality Assurance/Testing/Engineering, Data Engineering, Bu…

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Through this procurement, the British Council intends

Through this procurement, the British Council intends to establish contractual relationships with specialist suppliers who will deliver specific statements of work, as issued through the framework award process.

02

All professionals will remain employed and managed

All professionals will remain employed and managed by the supplier(s) but will be rapidly deployed to deliver specific British Council project delivery needs.

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

Source & provenance
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