Published date: 7 December 2022
Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.
Contract summary
Industry
Health and social work services - 85000000
Location of contract
North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West
Value of contract
£512,524.99 to £1,025,049.98
Procurement reference
tender_304772/1154518
Published date
7 December 2022
Closing date
2 September 2022
Closing time
5pm
Contract start date
29 November 2022
Contract end date
31 December 2024
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Call-off from a framework agreement
A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
This contract is for delivery of a fully managed service that performs administration of the assessment and recruitment support services to enable the national recruitment of candidates onto the Step-Up to Social Work programme. Notably, the service involves both IT systems and in person support at assessment centres.
The Step Up to Social Work training programme ("Step-Up") as delivered by Local Authorities ("LAs") in partnership with local Higher Education Institutions ("HEIs") was designed to deliver a consistent supply of high-quality social workers into the sector from wide ranging backgrounds. The rationale for Step-Up was, and continues to be, to expand the recruitment pool for social work while addressing deficiency in workforce quality and sufficiency. The Step-Up programme requires a fully managed service to be provided by the supplier to LAs within their Regional Partnerships. A summary of the required services is set out below:
- Design, supply and hosting of an IT-based application data capture system to coordinate the assessment process and assessment
centres across England;
- Administrative support to Regional Partnerships, to assess application pool of c.8,000 - 10,000 applicants;
- Staffing function at Regional Partnership assessment centres to recruit 700 trainees for the eighth cohort;
- Quality assurance function on applications at all stages of the process;
- Targeted Recruitment advice and support to minimise and remove any inequitable barriers candidates may face.
The Department for Education (DfE) elected to procure the full Administration Solution service by carrying out a further competition under an existing Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation (YPO) Framework specifically for managing temporary and permanent recruitment (Framework 942, Lot 11 'recruitment process outsourcing 'RPO').
This Contract shall expire on 31st December 2024 unless the Contracting Authority elects to extend the Contract for a further cohort of the Step Up to Social Work Programme, in which case the Expiry Date for this Contract shall be 31st December 2025, and activity associated with the delivery of the service for cohort 9 will commence in October 2024. The contract includes an extension provision for 1 further cohort subject to satisfactory performance and a demonstration of future efficiencies.
The total Contract Price for the Initial Contract Period is £512,524.99 (excluding VAT). The total value set out in this notice includes the maximum value of the contract over 2 cohorts in the event that the contract extension is enacted, excluding the cost of administrators for assessment centres.
More information
Award information
Awarded date
29 November 2022
Contract start date
29 November 2022
Contract end date
31 December 2024
Total value of contract
£1,025,049.98
This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.
Capita Resourcing Limited
Address
65 Gresham Street London EC2V 7NQ
Reference
Companies House number: 3949686
Supplier is SME?
No
Supplier is VCSE?
No
About the buyer
Contact name
Jess Roberts
Address
Sanctuary Buildings Great Smith Street, London
London
SW1P 3BT
England
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