Business organisation services

Tender description

This Prior Information Notice is not a call for competition but is an early market engagement exercise to enable Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC) to engage with suppliers to better understand the market and explore the potential for a Disclosure and Barring Services framework to service the needs of CPC Members and the wider Public Sector as a whole. The CPC wishes to go to market for a Disclosure and Barring Services framework and to this end, CPC would like to invite suppliers to engage with CPC, through its procurement partners NPG Limited, to discuss the nature of the forthcoming framework, its' design, specification and constructs. This notice is seeking suppliers who my wish to engage with us in this regard. The Disclosure and Barring Services framework will provide CPC Members and organisations throughout the public sector with access to efficient and effective Disclosure and Barring Service checks and associated services. The exact nature of the specification has yet to be determined and this early market engagement is critical in ensuring an appropriate framework structure and specification is established. The exact volume of business through this framework is unknown at this time and is solely dependent upon the extent to which CPC Members and wider public sector organisations decide to utilise the resulting framework.