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HR Associate Framework
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4 Nov 2026
- Primary CPV
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79000000 *
Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
- Location
- 🇬🇧 Northern Ireland
- Value
- £495,000
- Contract
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4 years Duration
10/05/2027 09/05/2031
- Contract Types
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79 *Business services: law, marketing, consu...Full CPV Breakdown
- SME suitable
- Not stated
Publisher Address
40 Academy Street, Belfast, BT1 2NQ, United Kingdom · UKN
Contact
Award Criteria
Not specified
Related tenders
the Education Authority
All notices from this publisher Same CPV code
79000000 *
All notices with this CPV code
Reference: BSP-26-012
This is a Pre-Market Engagement Exercise The Education Authority (EA) intends to establish a Framework to provide Support and Advisory Services across Human Resources, Organisational Development and Learning and Business Management. The framework will be established for a period of 4 years. The scope of this Framework Agreement is to procure Support and Advisory Services across Human Resources, Organisational Development and Learning and general Business Management. The main objective of the Framework is to provide a professional resource which can be flexibly deployed across the full remit of services provided by People Directorate. The Framework will be used to provide extra capacity to enable the Directorate to fulfil its normal business functions, respond to customer needs and flexibly deal with peaks in workload. They may also be used to provide specialist skills and experience for larger one-off projects as and when required. The Framework will be structured across the following lots. • Lot 1 - Transformational, Change and Business Management • Lot 2 – Leadership • Lot 3 - Employee Relations • Lot 4 - Recruitment • Lot 5 - Business Analysis, Strategic Planning and Data Analytics • Lot 6 - Culture, Vision and Values • Lot 7 - Employee Engagement • Lot 8 - Coaching and Mentoring • Lot 9 - Equality and Human Rights • Lot 10 - Performance and Reward Please note this is not a framework for the provision of Legal Services This Exercise will be used to assist EA in gaining a better understanding of the market/feasibility of the requirements, the most appropriate procurement and operational approach, the capacity of the market to deliver the requirements and an opportunity for the market to highlight any possible risks or issues that may not have previously been considered.
This Framework is let by the Northern Ireland Education Authority (“EA”) and is open to the EA, including NI educational bodies as follows and at some point, during the life of the Framework these bodies may wish to utilise the Framework and should have access, at any point, with the permission of EA. This Framework is not intended to replace any current Framework that participating or non-participating institutions may already have in place.
https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/services/schools-plus
Primary and Post Primary schools under the control of the EA, Catholic Maintained Schools, Independent Schools in NI, Irish Medium Schools in NI, both Controlled and, Voluntary Grammar Schools, Nursery School for NI (both controlled and Catholic Maintained), school meals kitchens on-site at all of these schools, and Controlled Youth Centres.
https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/contacts/further-education-fe-colleges
Further Education Colleges in NI
https://www.nicie.org/parents/school-finder/
Grant Controlled Integrated Education Schools in NI
https://www.isc.co.uk/schools/northern-ireland/
Independent School in NI
Libraries NI: https://www.librariesni.org.uk/Libraries/
EA Teachers’ and Educational Centres
Council for the Curriculum, Examination and Assessment NI (CCEA)
Armagh Observatory and Planetarium
Middletown Centre for Autism
Controlled Schools Support Council (CSSC)
Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE)
Pre-Schools and Nurseries included in the Pre-School Education Programme (PSEP)
Comhairle na Gaelscolaiochta
Department of Education NI
Full CPV breakdown
- 79000000 — Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security (primary)
Notice details
- Buyer type
- Local authority
- Contract type
- Services
- Main category
- Services
- Above threshold
- No
- Legal basis
- UKPGA 2023/54
- Notice status
- Planning
- Framework agreement
- Yes
- Language
- EN
- Published
- 04 Nov 2026 14:20
- OCID
- ocds-h6vhtk-07b2f8
- Notice ID
- BSP-26-012
Full notice record
48 detailsEverything the publisher included in this notice, organised by section. Contact details hidden: upgrade to Pro to see
Organisations
| Name | the Education Authority |
| Address › Street | 40 Academy Street |
| Address › Town / city | Belfast |
| Address › Postcode | BT1 2NQ |
| Address › Country | GB |
| Address › Country | United Kingdom |
| Address › Region (NUTS) | UKN06 |
| Role | buyer |
| Classification › Classification 1 › Description | Public authority - sub-central government |
| Classification › Classification 2 › Description | Northern Irish devolved regulations apply |
Buyer
| Name | the Education Authority |
Planning
| Milestone › Type | engagement |
| Milestone › Due | 24 Nov 2026 |
| Milestone › Status | scheduled |
| Document › Document type | Market engagement notice |
| Document › Description | Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender |
| Document › Link | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/104710-2026 |
| Document › Published | 4 Nov 2026 |
Tender
| Title | HR Associate Framework |
| Item › CPV › CPV 1 › Description | Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security |
| Item › CPV › CPV 2 › Description | Business and management consultancy and related services |
| Item › CPV › CPV 3 › Description | Recruitment services |
| Item › CPV › CPV 4 › Description | Education and training services |
| Item › CPV › CPV 5 › Description | Training services |
| Item › CPV › CPV 6 › Description | Staff training services |
| Item › CPV › CPV 7 › Description | Training programme services |
| Item › CPV › CPV 8 › Description | Management training services |
| Item › CPV › CPV 9 › Description | Personal development training services |
| Item › CPV › CPV 10 › Description | Business and management consultancy services |
| Item › CPV › CPV 11 › Description | General management consultancy services |
| Item › CPV › CPV 12 › Description | Business development consultancy services |
| Item › CPV › CPV 13 › Description | Crisis management services |
| Item › Delivery › Region (NUTS) | UKN |
| Item › Delivery › Country | GB |
| Item › Delivery › Country | United Kingdom |
| Value › Value incl. VAT | £652,500 |
| Value › Value | £495,000 |
| Value › Currency | GBP |
| Category | services |
| Above threshold | No |
| Techniques › Framework agreement | Yes |
| Lot › Suitable for › SMEs | Yes |
| Lot › Contract period › Start | 10 May 2027 |
| Lot › Contract period › End | 9 May 2031 |
| Lot › Status | planning |
| Communication › Expected publication | 13 Jan 2027 |
| Amendment › Description | Details of link to eTendersNI for further information added Further details are available at https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=6831400 |
| Status | planning |