Student Recruitment - Sub - Saharan Africa

LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITYcontractFind a TenderRef ocds-h6vhtk-04f803Procurement Act 2023pending
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Estimated value

Awarded value

£350k

Awarded 02 Sept 2025

Suppliers

1

Lots

1

1 awarded

Published

03 Sept 2025

Description

London Met wishes to appoint a suitably experienced specialist service provider to deliver a proactive service with the purpose of optimising student recruitment and conversion rates by recruiting, assessing and converting prospective students into enrolled students at the University. The successful Service Provider shall deliver recruitment and conversion management services for prospective students from Sub-Saharan Africa at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including enquirers, applicants, offer holders and acceptors of offers. The Service Provider will be expected to manage London Met's agent network in Sub-Saharan Africa and support the International Recruitment Team with expanding the partner network in-country.

Scope

Reference
LMU2025-1856
Commercial tool
Standalone contract
Contract dates
01 Dec 2025 to 30 Nov 2028
Possible extension to 30 Nov 2030

Contract is in a 1+1 format upon the expiry of the original term

CPV classifications
79600000
Contract locations
UK, United Kingdom
AO, Angola
BJ, Benin
BW, Botswana
BF, Burkina Faso
BI, Burundi
CM, Cameroon
CF, Central African Republic
TD, Chad
CG, Congo
CD, Congo (Democratic Republic)
DJ, Djibouti
GQ, Equatorial Guinea
ER, Eritrea
SZ, Eswatini
ET, Ethiopia
GA, Gabon
GH, Ghana
GN, Guinea
GW, Guinea-Bissau
KE, Kenya
LS, Lesotho
LR, Liberia
MG, Madagascar
MW, Malawi
ML, Mali
MR, Mauritania
MU, Mauritius
MZ, Mozambique
NA, Namibia
NE, Niger
NG, Nigeria
RW, Rwanda
ST, Sao Tome and Principe
SN, Senegal
SC, Seychelles
SL, Sierra Leone
SO, Somalia
ZA, South Africa
SS, South Sudan
SD, Sudan
GM, The Gambia
TG, Togo
UG, Uganda
ZM, Zambia
ZW, Zimbabwe

Award criteria

Criteria the buyer will use to evaluate bids.

NameDescriptionTypeWeighting
Price1.13.2.1 The Participant submitting a compliant tender with the lowest price will receive an unweighted score of 100. 1.13.2.2 The unweighted scores of each other tender will be calculated based on the formula a/b* 100 where a is the price of the lowest compliant tender and b is the price submitted by the Participant under evaluation. Results will be rounded to 2 decimal places. 1.13.2.3 Each Participant's marks will be weighted to 45%.cost45.00%
Quality1.14.1 Participants must submit a single response to each of the questions listed in the Technical Questionnaire document enclosed at Schedule 8. For each question, only the information you provide specifically within that specific single question will be considered in evaluating your answer to that particular question. Any documentation uploaded elsewhere, or information not detailed within that single question response document, will not be considered in the evaluation of that question.quality50.00%
Community Benefits1.15.1 The Authority aims to secure broader public benefits from the contracts it enters into, through an approach that seeks to reward socially responsible enterprises and those willing to deliver wider benefits through their contracts with the Authority. 1.15.2 The Authority has included at Schedule 9 a Community Benefits Menu which sets out community benefits relevant to the Contract. In order to achieve any score under this clause Participants must offer a package of community benefits from the menu with a total aggregate number of community benefit points at least equal to the minimum number of points specified in the menu. The Participant's community benefits score will then be evaluated based on the Participant's proposed methodology for delivering those community benefits, according to the following evaluation methodology:quality5.00%

Participation

Conditions suppliers must meet to bid.

This is set out in the PSQ document

Submission & procedure

Procedure
Open procedure

Award details

Awarded supplier(s), contract period and value as published in the award notice.

Awarded value

£350k

Award date

02 Sept 2025

Contract start

01 Dec 2025

Contract end

30 Nov 2028