Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

Tender description

The NWUPC has a requirement to establish a Framework Agreement for the provision of Global Mobility Support Services. NWUPC is managing this procurement process in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the ‘Regulations’) on behalf of members of North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium (NWUPC), North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC), Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC), London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC), Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC), Higher Education Purchasing Consortium Wales (HEPCW), Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC) and UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UKSBS). Members of the participating consortia can be found at the below links: NWUPC: http://www.nwupc.ac.uk/our-members APUC: http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/#!/members HEPCW: http://www.hepcw.ac.uk/about-us-2/ LUPC: http://www.lupc.ac.uk/list-of-members.html NEUPC: http://neupc.ac.uk/our-members SUPC: http://supc.ac.uk/engage/our-members/our-members CPC: http://www.thecpc.ac.uk/members/regions.php UKSBS: http://www.uksbs.co.uk/Pages/default.aspx The framework will be structured into 5 Lots: Lot 1 — Legal Services; Lot 2 — Taxation and Accountancy Services; Lot 3 — International Payroll Services; Lot 4 — Domiciliation Services; Lot 5 — Relocation Services. At some point during the life of the Framework Agreement the current members of the following Consortia may wish to utilise the Agreement and should have access at any point with the permission of NWUPC. Therefore, it should also apply, with the express written permission of NWUPC, to any member of any other Higher or Further Education regional purchasing consortium or any other Higher Education Institution in the United Kingdom as well as the Research Councils, providing that they formally commit to participate in and support this Agreement. NWUPC will only grant permission at the request of the consortium; or an Institution if it is not a member of a Consortium. This Agreement is not intended to replace any current Agreements that either participating or non-participating Consortia may already have in place. A list of the current members of those HE and FE regional purchasing consortia is as follows: NWUPC: http://www.nwupc.ac.uk/our-members APUC: http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/#!/members HEPCW: http://www.hepcw.ac.uk/about-us-2/ LUPC: http://www.lupc.ac.uk/list-of-members.html NEUPC: http://www.neupc.ac.uk/our-members SUPC: http://www.supc.ac.uk/engage/our-members/our-members CPC: http://www.thecpc.ac.uk/members/regions.php UKSBS: http://www.uksbs.co.uk/Pages/default.aspx