How to win: Provision of Recruitment Agency Services

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The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) regulates auditors, accountants and actuaries and sets the UK's Corporate Governance and Stewardship Codes. As the Competent Authority for audit in the UK, we set auditing and ethical standards and monitor and enforce audit quality. The FRC seeks to appoint recruitment agencies to provide: • Permanent recruitment services; • Fixed term contract recruitment services; • Occasional interim recruitment services. There are five Lot's under the (proposed) Framework Agreement. The FRC intends to award up to five suppliers per Lot. The framework will run for a maximum of four years. The estimated value is £700,000 (plus VAT) over the four year duration across ALL the five Lots. Please refer to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) document.

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — THE FINANCIAL REPORTING COUNCIL LIMITED scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £700,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 12 August 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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