Published date: 28 April 2015

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 22 May 2015

Contract summary

Industry

  • Financial consultancy services - 66171000

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  • Systems consultancy services - 72246000

    • Software consultancy services - 72266000

    • Computer support and consultancy services - 72600000

    • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

    • Development consultancy services - 73220000

    • Business development consultancy services - 79411100

    • Human resources management consultancy services - 79414000

    • Procurement consultancy services - 79418000

Location of contract

B4 7WB

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

P0165

Published date

28 April 2015

Closing date

22 May 2015

Contract start date

1 June 2015

Contract end date

31 March 2016

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Birmingham City Council has a requirement to utilise the services of individual specialist contractors who will provide the Council with an additional mechanism to engage niche professional resources.

The panels that will be engaged are:
• Strategy
• Finance
• Human Resources
• Procurement
• Legal
• Property
• ICT
• Acivico (PPD)
• Transportation
• Safeguarding & Development, Customer Relations services

For the purpose of this procurement activity the wider definition of an Associate is an off-payroll individual who is self-employed, a sole trader or who has set up a limited company (but does not employ anyone other than themselves).

An Associate must be a qualified and experienced professional, providing advice and guidance for specific time limited projects. The work undertaken will include the identification of options with recommendations as well as supporting the implementation of a solution or end product.

Associates cannot offer the services of another individual or 3rd parties, as this framework is solely for an off-payroll individual (defined as above). This framework excludes the following organisations, as they are already catered for in existing ongoing contracts:

• SME's
• Micro-businesses
• Partnerships (of any description)
• Multi-national organisations

Associates are not Council employees and therefore there is no obligation on the Council to provide regular or guaranteed work and no mutuality of obligation. The engagement process will include verification of self-employed / limited company status and the relevant HMRC checks and indemnities from the individual will be secured.

This framework agreement commenced on 30th June 2014 for a 2 year period. The Contract end day will be 31st March 2016 (unless terminated under the terms and conditions of contract). Note that there is no provision to extend this framework.



To ensure suitably experienced and qualified individuals are available, the Find-It-In-Birmingham advert will remain open throughout the life of the framework. Individuals will be able to join the framework once their application has been processed and accepted.

This Qualifying Criteria Stage Questionnaire (QCS) is being issued using the Council's e-tendering system 'in-tend' and interested parties must ensure that they are registered to use the 'in-tend' system to enable access to the QCS documents. The procurement process will be managed using this system and therefore all questionnaires must be submitted by Tenderers via the 'in-tend' system.
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc.

Registration and use of in-tend is free. All correspondence for this procurement process must be via the in-tend correspondence function and you should not contact any individual directly either by email or by telephone. If you are already a registered user, you do not have to re-register. If you are una...

More information

Links

Additional text

If you are interested in tendering please click on the following link to access Birmingham City Council's tender Portal.

Delivery Notes

Birmingham

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About the buyer

Contact name

Sanita Aitan

Address

10 Woodcock Street
Birmingham
West Midlands
B4 7WB
United Kingdom

Telephone

0121 675 2215

Email

sanita.aitan@birmingham.gov.uk