Published date: 21 February 2019

Last edited date: 21 February 2019

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: 6 February 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Executive services - 75111100

  • Recruitment services - 79600000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0 to £30,000

Procurement reference

CS18043

Published date

21 February 2019

Closing date

6 February 2019

Contract start date

4 March 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

*** This tender requirement was abandoned prior to a Contract award decision. ***

DO NOT apply directly to the buyer.

All tender information MUST be submitted through the CCS eSourcing Portal.

Brief Description of Requirement

UKRI require an executive search agency for the campaign to recruit an Executive Chair of Innovate UK, which is a constituent part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The appointed agency will:
• Assist UKRI and BEIS to shape and refine the current draft job and person specifications to maximise the likelihood of attracting a diverse pool of strong and credible candidates;
• Advise UKRI and BEIS on an innovative search, advertising and attraction strategy for this post;
• Implement the agreed search, advertising and attraction strategy to find and attract the optimum pool of candidates;
• Advise on enhancing the effectiveness of recruitment processes, including interview design and any additional activities that may add value in combination with interviews. E.g. psychometric or other testing;
• Advise and support the Selection Panel at sift, pre-interview and post-interview stages;
• Advise and support the BEIS Public Appointments team who are responsible for:
o Managing and delivering the end to end recruitment process in line with Office for the Commissioner of Public Appointments regulations
o Contract managing the selected executive search agency
o Ministerial briefing and securing ministerial approvals throughout the recruitment process;
• Provide administrative and logistics support throughout the recruitment process, including candidate packs;
• Provide candidate care throughout the recruitment process, including standing down unsuccessful candidates after sift.

Please ensure you review all attached information to ensure a full understanding of this requirement. All attachments can be found with the RFx attachments tab within the Emptoris System.

This contract will be awarded based on the evaluation criteria set out in the ITQ / RFP document.

How to Apply

As part of the strategic alliance between UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) and Crown Commercial Service (CCS), UK SBS will be using the CCS eSourcing Suite for this procurement.

To register on the CCS eSourcing portal please follow the details contained within the Additional Information section of this notice.

If you are already registered on the CCS eSourcing portal and wish to register your interest in this opportunity please email; expressionofinterest@crowncommercial.gov.uk

Your email must clearly state:
• the name and reference for the procurement you wish to register for;
• the name of the registered Bidder;
• the name and contact details for the registered individual sending the email.

Please disregard any content in this notice that requests your organisation "to apply directly to the buyer" as this unfortunately a system generated error, that is outside of the Contracting Authorities control.

More information

Attachments

Links

Additional text

DO NOT APPLY DIRECTLY TO BUYER

All submissions will be assessed in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, for procurement values that exceed Regulation 5 (Threshold amounts)

Responses must be received by the date in the tender documentation; responses received outside of the deadline or not sent via the eSourcing portal will not be accepted or considered further for this opportunity.

How to Register on the CCS eSourcing Suite

If you have not yet registered on the eSourcing Suite, this can be done online at https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk by following the link 'Register for CCS eSourcing'.

Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering, who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so.

Once you have registered on the eSourcing Suite, a registered user can express an interest for a specific procurement. This is done by emailing expressionofinterest@crowncommercial.gov.uk.

Your email must clearly state:
• name and reference for the procurement you wish to register for;
• name of the registered Bidder;
• name and contact details for the registered individual sending the email.

Crown Commercial Service will process the email and then enable the Bidder to access the procurement online via the e-Sourcing Suite. The registered user will receive a notification email to alert them once this has been done. The Sourcing documents can then be accessed on the eSourcing Suite at: https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk using the instructions detailed in the Specification documents within Contracts Finder.

As a user of the e-Sourcing Suite you will have access to Emptoris email messaging service which facilitates all messages sent to you and from you in relation to any specific RFX event.

Please note it is your responsibility to access these emails on a regular basis to ensure you have sight of all relevant information.

For technical assistance on use of the e-Sourcing Suite please contact Crown Commercial Service Helpdesk: Telephone: 0345 010 3503

Training documents to support Bidders to utilise Emptoris CCS eSourcing are available in the Contracts Finder Tender documents section.

About UK Shared Business Services

UK Shared Business Services Ltd (UK SBS) brings a commercial attitude to the public sector; helping our contracting authorities to improve efficiency, generate savings and modernise.

Where UK SBS is not named as the Contracting Authority within the documentation, UK SBS will be acting as an agent on behalf of the Contracting Authority.

Our broad range of expert services is shared by our customers. This allows our customers the freedom to focus resources on core activities; innovating and transforming their own organisations.

For full details of our partne

About the buyer

Contact name

Ben Oborne

Address

POLARIS HOUSE
NORTH STAR AVENUE
SWINDON
SN21FF
England

Telephone

01793 867005

Email

Professionalservices@uksbs.co.uk

Website

www.uksbs.co.uk