Awarded contract

ACE Agency Staff

Details

Supplier(s)
Quickhire Recruitment Limited
Value
£200,000
Topic
Recruitment services
Published
17 February 2025

Tender description

This contract is to ensure the Universities Accommodation, Catering and Events department can adequately operate their three hotels while the new temporary staffing contract is developed. Lot 1: As per object. The supplier is an event specific company that can provide specialist staff to the Universities hotels when required.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date20 November 2024
  2. Completed: Award published17 February 2025
    Current notice

About the buyer

University of Edinburgh buys as a higher education institution, through its own Procurement function. Larger tenders are advertised on Public Contract Scotland, via the PCS-T e-tendering platform. Suppliers must register separately on both systems before bidding. Much of this procurement flows through framework agreements with APUC, Scotland Excel and the Crown Commercial Service. Prior information notices invite market engagement from suppliers ahead of larger tenders. The Strategic Procurement team leads regulated sourcing, while Operational Procurement manages day-to-day purchase orders. A Procurement Support team handles reporting, data analysis and training across the function.

Education procurement reached £47.4bn in 2024/25, the fourth-largest public sector budget.

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Edinburgh's contract awards have been in laboratory and precision equipment, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and software and information systems.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 79600000 · Recruitment services
  • 79620000 · Supply services of personnel including temporary staff

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