Signal · Supply Chain & Logistics

Contract award: BASINGSTOKE & DEANE BOROUGH COUNCIL - Managed Service for Temporary Agency Resources (GBP 1,500,000)

UK Contracts Finder OCDS Search Authoritative source Published 7th October 2026 United Kingdom

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What the source reported

Source-reported

Contract award notice published on UK Contracts Finder by BASINGSTOKE & DEANE BOROUGH COUNCIL. Procurement: Managed Service for Temporary Agency Resources. Description: Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council has appointed Matrix SCM Limited as its Managed Service for Temporary Agency Resources under the ESPO MSTAR4 Framework. The total contract value is variable based on usage. The figure provided in Section 6 "Award Details" is an estimated total value. The contact is for a period of 2 years with the option to extend for 2x 12 months. Category: services. Value: GBP 1,500,000 (stated award/contract value). Supplier(s): Matrix SCM Ltd.

Publication: UK Contracts Finder OCDS Search · Government/Regulator
Published: 7th October 2026
Original report: contractsfinder.service.gov.uk

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Category: Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography: United Kingdom
Organisations: None identified
Collected: 7th October 2026 · 12:43

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Significance 1 · Low

Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (15.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact
Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity

Possibly the same underlying story as Contract award: London Borough of Waltham Forest - Managed Services for Temporary Agency Resources (GBP 108,000,000) — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.

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What ProcIntel recorded

Initial assessment ⓘMore about Initial Signal AssessmentProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.