Published date: 11 April 2018
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Contract summary
Industry
Recruitment services - 79600000
Location of contract
West Midlands, London
Value of contract
£0
Procurement reference
PROC.04.0130 (Supplier 1)
Published date
11 April 2018
Closing date
11 October 2017
Contract start date
26 October 2017
Contract end date
31 January 2018
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?
No
Description
The objective of this contract is to undertake effective advertising, search, selection and candidate management processes to recruit circa 25 Price Review Analysts on 2 year fixed term contracts (FTC), to start ideally from 1 January 2018 and no later than 1 April 2018. These roles will be at Senior Associate (band 3 GBP 32,363 - GBP 48,406) and Principal (band 4 GBP 48,407 - GBP 74,042) level. The intention is that these new recruits will work primarily on our Price Review and will be recruited into our Analytics and Strategy & Policy Resource Pools. The information for applicants pack and person specifications by profession are attached at Appendix A and B respectively within the ITT. If the campaign is successful, we may review our budget position and recruit further roles above the circa. 25 outlined in this tender.
These roles are:
- Finance and accounting
- Engineering and infrastructure
- Economics
- Information and quality assurance
- Strategy and policy
- Regulatory analysts
Ideally we are looking for an even mix of skillsets and we would expect 60% of appointments to be at Senior Associate level and 40% at Principal level.
As these are specialist roles that can be difficult to fill and candidates are required to start from 1 January 2018 to 1 April 2018, we are taking a number of different approaches to filling these vacancies. This is to ensure that we get right calibre of candidates within the timescales we require. We will go live with our own recruitment campaign in September 2017 led by a dedicated internal resourcer, we will advertise on our website, Civil Service jobs and LinkedIn as well as placing a number of online adverts. We will also tap into the UK Regulators Network advertising loans and secondments as an alternative attraction method. The final component of our campaign is to secure the services of a third party agency or agencies to source high calibre candidates. As we are looking for a range of specialist skills for both our London and Birmingham offices, we intend to award this service to at least 1 and up to 3 Suppliers. It is essential that the Supplier or mix of Suppliers can deliver candidates at both locations.
Scope of work
We are looking for a Supplier/s who will invest time to quickly get up to speed with what Ofwat does and our Price Review and the type of skills we are looking for. The Supplier would need to be creative in how they approach the end to end campaign, undertaking effective advertising, search and selection processes using a range of methods and present a high quality and diverse field of suitable candidates. In the past we have experienced some difficulties securing suitable candidates for these type of vacancies as the skills are very specialist and can be hard to find and in short supply. We are interested in proposals for how these issues would be overcome.
More information
Attachments
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- PROC.04.0130 SER0716 Supplier 1 - Signed by both parties_Redacted.pdf
- Signed contract
- Contract
Additional text
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Please note that as this contract is dependent on the appointment of successful candidates therefore exact spend is unknown.
Award information
Awarded date
24 October 2017
Contract start date
26 October 2017
Contract end date
31 March 2018
Total value of contract
£0
This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.
River Partnership
Address
67-68 Long Acre
London
WC2E 9JDReference
Companies House number: 06654478
Value of contract
£0
Supplier is SME?
Yes
Supplier is VCSE?
No
About the buyer
Address
Centre City Tower
7 Hill Street
Birmingham
B5 4UA
England
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Closing: 11 October 2017