Find a TenderPast planning notice
Published 14 Jun 2021, 12:54 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Pre-employment Background Screening · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: British Council (Local council)

Services
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 30 Jul 2021from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The British Council will be seeking to appoint a suitable provider via a future tender to deliver Background Screening service who can support its PAS policy, This service will verify the background of approximately 2,000 new hires annually across 100+ countries and an annual rescreening programme of approximately 10,500 employees. The system should be capable of supporting web-based candidate data entry and integrate with our Candidate Management system (SAP Success Factors) for Orders and reporting. We are also interested in solutions that would enable us to screen consultants and contract workers to the same standards.

CPV: Investigation services · Recruitment services · Security services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1The British Council is looking for a global solution to support background screening…Planned

The British Council is looking for a global solution to support background screening of all new hire employees and ongoing annual rescreening cycle of approximately 10,500 employees The British council utilises SAP Success Factors so an ability to order screening via an integration to the recruitment module is a critical requirement. The British Council currently delivers global background screening via a combination of in-house resource and outsourced contract. Our intention is to continue to outsource all background screening for British Council employees to one global screening supplier.The British council is currently undergoing transformation and business realignment and anticipates needing to bring the screening of consultants and contractors into scope of the same model at a later dateKey Areas: Risk ProfileWe have identified four broad risk profiles for our new hire employees and require the supplier to be able to tailor their operation to deliver these different screening packages. Similarly, internal transfers between roles require 2 different screening packages and finally our existing employees have 3 different re-screening profiles.Operational reachWe are head quartered in the UK, but our in-house screening team are based in, India. We have operational bases in 100+ countries and require supplier capability to perform background screening checks in all our operational locations where legally permissible to do so.Technology and processThe solution should allow recruiters from 100+ country bases to order screening via their instance of Success Factors. We would expect the process to broadly run thus. Supplier acknowledges screening order and commences work; progress report feed is visible to recruiter via data feed to Success Factors recruitment requisition. Supplier updates Background screening team with progress on attempts to verify, seeking to minimise unable to verify and decisional elements. When screening is closed a report and snips or.pdf evidence is sent to British Council for audit and compliance purpose.Our orders for recurrent screening should ideally also integrate with SAP Success Factors, but will be ordered by our team in Noida, reports and evidence snips where necessary should be returned to British Council for upload into SAP Success FactorsAccount Management & Customer ServiceBritish Council requires one global account manager/lead to manage its screening requirements along with regional point of contacts for each region. However, attention should be paid to the global reach of our organisation and consideration given to an approach that supports a global corporate "head office" in London, UK and a service delivery manager and team based in Mumbai and Noida, India.Further details can be found in the PIN notice attached. Additional information: If you are interested in expressing an interest and/or bidding for this project, please go to in-tendhost.co.uk/britishcouncil ↗ . You may then have to register your company before you can express an interest for this project and get access the documents.

Delivery: UK

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
14 Jun 2021, 12:54 BST
Last source update
14 Jun 2021, 12:54 BST
FTS notice number
2021/S 000-013345
Classification (CPV)
Investigation servicesRecruitment servicesSecurity services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02bb94 Find a Tender

Publisher note: If you are interested in expressing an interest for this PIN, please go to https://in-tendhost.co.uk/britishcouncil You will need to login (or register and then login) before you can express an interest for this PIN

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

14 Jun 2021 → 30 Jul 2021 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published
    14 Jun 2021, 12:54 BST
  2. Tender notice expected
    30 Jul 2021, 00:00 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

The British Council

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegistered CharityRegistered Charity 1 Redman Place, Stratford, London , United Kingdom, UK, E20 1JQContact name, email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

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