Published date: 10 August 2017
Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.
Contract summary
Industry
Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security - 79000000
Location of contract
East Midlands
Value of contract
£44,000,000 to £44,020,215
Procurement reference
LEICSCITY02-DN257027-10859027
Published date
10 August 2017
Closing date
17 July 2017
Contract start date
18 November 2017
Contract end date
17 November 2021
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Other:
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
No
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
Leicester City Council has appointed a Managed Service Provider (MSP) to meet our temporary staffing requirements. Due to the diverse nature of our temporary staffing requirements, working in a wide range of sectors to strict timescales, we require a "high touch" MSP to work with the Vacancy Management Team to provide our requirements.
Leicester City Council is a fourth generation MSP user and has a dedicated Vacancy Management team which ensures robust demand management and governance controls are in place and adhered to on the use of agency staff. Spend on agency workers reduced by £1.2m (a 10% reduction) compared with the previous year (2015/16). This cost reduction was achieved despite increases in Living wage costs (3%) and worker pay rates (1%).
Leicester City Council's spend on agency staff in the financial year 2016/17 was £10.9m. The table below shows how this was spread across the different job classes used.
Admin & Clerical 5%
Manual Labour 14%
Trades and Operatives 14%
Qualified Social Care 43%
Unqualified Social Care 8%
Qualified Education 3%
Unqualified Education 0%
Qualified professionals 3%
Part qualified professionals 2%
Interims and Senior Management 3%
Legal 3%
IT 1%
We have a high reliance on agency workers in the qualified social care arena, particularly children's social care. It is essential that any MSP is able to offer a high touch service to manage this requirement and provide suitable resource in a timely and compliant manner. The MSP needs to be fully conversant with providing qualified social care staff into an authority with similar demographics to Leicester City Council. It is also essential that any MSP is able to access specialist management and professional staff across the diverse roles within a unitary local authority, where it does not make financial sense to retain/recruit staff as part of the substantive workforce.
Award information
Awarded date
10 August 2017
Contract start date
18 November 2017
Contract end date
17 November 2021
Total value of contract
£44,020,215
This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.
Reed Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Address
Reed Specialist Recruitment Ltd, Academy Court, 94 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1DT
Reference
None
Supplier is SME?
No
Supplier is VCSE?
No
About the buyer
Contact name
Pam Grainger
Address
City Hall (4th Floor)
115 Charles Street
Leicester
LE1 1FZ
England
Telephone
+44 1164544038
Website
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