Temporary And Permanent Staffing 2 Framework
Framework Description
Crescent Purchasing Consortium's Temporary and Permanent Staffing 2 framework is the re-tendered route for education and public sector recruitment. It runs to 16 July 2029, with an option to extend by 12 months to 16 July 2030. It has six lots covering academic, non-academic and executive recruitment plus master vendor, neutral vendor and vendor management system models.
Context & Use Case
Schools, colleges, universities, education authorities and other public bodies use it to hire temporary and permanent staff. HR teams and hiring managers can call off individual agencies by role type or appoint a managed service to run their whole agency supply chain. Collective buying gives smaller members rates they could not secure alone. Call-offs run through CPC's MultiQuote portal.
Scope of Services
Lot 1: Academic Roles Lot 2: Non-Academic Roles Lot 3: Executive and Leadership Roles Lot 4: Master Vendor Lot 5: Neutral Vendor Lot 6: Vendor Management System
Lots
Lot 1 Academic Roles; Lot 2 Non-Academic Roles; Lot 3 Executive and Leadership Roles; Lot 4 Master Vendor; Lot 5 Neutral Vendor; Lot 6 Vendor Management System
Who Can Apply
Suits recruitment agencies with education and public sector experience, executive search firms, and managed service and VMS providers. The framework is now awarded and applications are closed, so new agencies cannot join until the re-tender, likely around July 2029 or July 2030 if extended.
Buyer Benefits
Education employers must meet strict safeguarding checks on every placement. They value agencies with proven vetting, transparent mark-ups, and the option of a master or neutral vendor to control agency spend across many sites, all through a competed CPC route.
Next Steps
Appointed agencies should prepare for MultiQuote call-offs, with compliance, fill-rate and margin data ready. Others should note the 16 July 2029 expiry and plan for the next re-tender, or seek tier-two supply under an appointed master vendor. Build safeguarding audit results and education placement case studies now.
How Athena Can Help
For agencies on the framework, Athena's bid writing for recruitment helps you win call-offs with safeguarding-led win themes, fill-rate evidence and mark-up models tested against rivals.
For agencies aiming at the next round, we start with bid for the bid planning to choose the right lot, then our framework registration experts prepare policies, case studies and the full application. For master vendor and VMS lots, we also build the pricing and financial models that evaluators test closely.
