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Company description
SEARCH CONSULTANCY LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 13 July 1987; registered for 39 years; registered office reported in GLASGOW, SCOTLAND. Its primary declared activity is 78109 · Other activities of employment placement agencies, with 1 additional SIC activity reported.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 3 trade marks, 10 procurement records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- SEARCH CONSULTANCY LIMITED
- Company number
- SC105640
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 15 total · 5 outstanding · 10 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
29 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
30 October 2025Next statement due
13 November 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 24.2%
- Mean bonus gap
- -11.3%
- Women receiving bonus
- 63.3%
- Men receiving bonus
- 76.7%
- Women in top quartile
- 54.8%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 43.8%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 70.3%
- Women in lower quartile
- 59.4%
Earlier reporting years (7)
- 1000 to 4999-2.2% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49990.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49990.0% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-1.5% median hourly gap
- 5000 to 19,999-2.5% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-6.1% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 4999-4.1% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 29 December 2025 – 28 June 2026
- Filed
- 28 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 60 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 29 December 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £3,726,659
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £22,566,091
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £211,738
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £1,464,356
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 41.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 60 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Payment terms vary depending on contract however are typically between 30 and 60 days.
- Dispute resolution process
Disputes are notified to the supplier by either the accounts department or the purchasing manager. Every effort is made to resolve disputes within the payment terms.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 32.0 average days to pay44.0% outside terms
- 39.0 average days to pay53.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay57.0% outside terms
- 36.0 average days to pay53.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay49.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay45.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay45.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay43.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay36.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay36.0% outside terms
- 31.0 average days to pay31.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Search Consultancy Limited
Registration Z7108441
- Registered from
- 1 October 2002
- Current end date
- 30 September 2027
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
06 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
The purpose of the tender is to create a pool of recruitment providers who will be available to provide recruitment services upon request from NHS Property Services (NHSPS). Once the Appointed Providers are contracted with NHSPS, they will be approached to provide services based on the regions they operate in and functions they can cover. The key objective(s) of this competition are to: ⢠Establish a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) of Appointed Providers who will provide recruitment services to NHSPS. NHSPS intends to award a contract to 30 Providers. ⢠Set the conditions under which Appointed Providers will operate and provide services 30 Providers will
NHS PROPERTY SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-779210f6-d6b1-4d0f-bbf5-3234bfb530be
- Supplier named in award
- Search Consultancy Ltd
- Award value
- £14,200,000
- Contract period
- 24 September 2021 – 24 September 2023
- Published
- 29 July 2022
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Main CPV
- 79600000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-779210f6-d6b1-4d0f-bbf5-3234bfb530be-2022-07-29T11:54:40+01:00
Cirrus Consortium Agency Labour & Recruitment Services Framework 2019
CIRRUS PURCHASING LTD · ocds-b5fd17-bec3e902-4766-4da3-8e84-0fe612c0547f
- Supplier named in award
- Search Consultancy Ltd
- Award value
- £0
- Contract period
- 12 March 2019 – 11 March 2023
- Published
- 2 April 2019
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 79620000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-bec3e902-4766-4da3-8e84-0fe612c0547f-2019-04-02T17:35:05+01:00
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
ASHTON JONES
Owner Search Consultancy Limited · classes 35
- Filed / designated
- 22 August 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 August 2027
Figurative mark
Owner Search Consultancy Limited · classes 35
- Filed / designated
- 14 July 2001
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 July 2021
fp SEARCH & SELECTION
Owner Search Consultancy Limited · classes 35
- Filed / designated
- 28 September 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 28 September 2019
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Search Consultancy Group Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Can appoint or remove directors
- Country registered
- England
- Legal authority
- Companies Act 2006
- Legal form
- Limited Company
- Place registered
- Companies House
- Registration number
- 03909899
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
09 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
Connect2Framework For Social and Healthcare
COMMERCIAL SERVICES KENT LIMITED · updated 5 June 2026
- Tender value
- £110,000,000
- Awards
- 3
Data Platform Development
DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY · updated 4 June 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Project Manager - Estates
Maritime and Coastguard Agency · updated 27 May 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Connect2Framework for The Supply of Professional Operational Support Interim Workers
COMMERCIAL SERVICES KENT LIMITED · updated 21 April 2026
- Tender value
- £110,000,000
- Awards
- 1
The Provision of Temporary and Permanent Recruitment Services
NORTHERN TRAINS LIMITED · updated 30 March 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 8
Temporary Recruitment Services
ORBIT GROUP LIMITED · updated 16 February 2026
- Tender value
- £13,460,000
- Awards
- 4
Recruitment Framework
LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY · updated 28 August 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 10
Recruitment Agencies - Preferred Supplier List
NHS PROPERTY SERVICES LIMITED · updated 29 July 2022
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 30
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
12 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Temporary employment agency activities
14 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
8 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
15 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.