Published date: 16 March 2017

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: 31 March 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Recruitment services - 79600000

Location of contract

Scotland, North East, Yorkshire and the Humber, North West, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, South East, South West, Wales, Northern Ireland, London, Channel Islands

Value of contract

£30,000

Procurement reference

MT194909

Published date

16 March 2017

Closing date

31 March 2017

Contract start date

1 September 2017

Contract end date

31 August 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Action for Children is a leading children's charity with approximately 500 services throughout the UK.
Action for Children continually aims to improve efficiency, effectiveness and long-term security, one of our three primary strategic objectives.
We are seeking expressions of interest from established Suppliers to deliver Recruitment provision types split into a lot format, across the Action for Children estate throughout England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Guernsey (desirable).
The tender will be delivered into the following lots:
1 Temporary agency worker provisions in a master or neutral vendor format:
The end to end management of the temporary worker provisions and a robust sourcing solution to meet all requirements including safeguarding and compliance checks . The Supplier will also provide a portal for total transparency to store all agency worker information and process all timesheets.
2 Permanent recruitment services in a master or neutral vendor format:
A solution to attract and source talented candidates to meet Action for Children resource needs to include compliance with all safeguarding and relevant governance requirements. The Supplier will fulfil multiple provision types to meet the coverage across the Action for Children UK estate.
3 Transactional Recruitment Processing :
Management of the entire end to end recruitment administrative process for substantive posts for Action for Children.
Managing the administration of all recruitment attraction, advertising and selection of substantive recruitment for the Charity.
Development in collaboration with AFC of a candidate attraction strategy.
A robust query management system and process.
Monitoring and management of all pre-employment screening, compliance and on boarding checks.
4 Disclosure Services:
This provision will manage the processes for all recruitment and non-recruitment disclosure checks in line with the Disclosure and Barring Checks Policy and Procedures across England/Wales/Scotland/NI and Guernsey(desirable).
The Supplier will work closely with Action for Children and ensure all checks are provided in the correct format and when required for recruitment and non-recruitment related candidates.
The Supplier(s) must provide the service across England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Guernsey (desirable) and have a clear understanding of Action for Children.
Further information will be available in the Pre - Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ).
To view the PQQ please click on the below link:
https://actnforchildren-my.sharepoint.com/personal/justin_ali_actionforchildren_org_uk/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?folderid=0b5bd1b7cc60941b197343f5ec3976601&authkey=AVEP05csruEGnaXhWOtqrl4

More information

Links

About the buyer

Contact name

Justin Ali

Address

3, The Boulevard
Ascot Road
Watford
WD18 8AG
England

Telephone

+44 7590417238

Email

buying@actionforchildren.org.uk