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title: "Recruitment and Management of Children’s Agency Social Workers"
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# Recruitment and Management of Children’s Agency Social Workers

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/recruitment-and-management-of-children-s-agency-social-workers-ocds-h6vhtk-03a184). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Sandwell Childrens Trust : "Recruitment and Management of Children’s Agency Social Workers". Published status: complete. Framework Ceiling: £21,250,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 27 Feb 2023, 15:00 GMT. Published submission portal: in-tendhost.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Sandwell Childrens Trust ](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/sandwell-childrens-trust-GB-FTS-23080)
- **Framework Ceiling (notional):** £21,250,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 27 February 2023 at 15:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Recruitment services, Social work and related services, Social work services
- **Delivery Location:** UKG37
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03a184`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/recruitment-and-management-of-children-s-agency-social-workers-ocds-h6vhtk-03a184#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [in-tendhost.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fin-tendhost.co.uk%2Fsandwellmbc)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/recruitment-and-management-of-children-s-agency-social-workers-ocds-h6vhtk-03a184#participate

## Description
A key priority of the Trust’s workforce strategy is to stabilise the workforce and build sustainable capacity for the future. A critical part of this is the Trust’s ability to utilise Children’s Agency Social Workers in an efficient and effective manner to meet any shortfalls in permanent staffing, and to deal with specific peaks in caseloads.  The recruitment of children social workers is constantly challenging, with a shortage of sufficiently experienced candidates, a limited pipeline into the sector and it operates in a crowded geographical area.  Within this it is acknowledged that agency workers play a critical part of the social care workforce to enable it to ‘flex’ to meet changing priorities and to fill resourcing gaps. In December 2019, the Trust applied the two-year extension option within the Agreement.  Following a procurement process in 2021, an 18-month contract was awarded which expires at 31 May 2023.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 79600000, 85300000, 85310000
- **Delivery regions:** UKG

- **Description:** Please refer to ITT Documents
- **Contract Period:** 31/05/2023 to 30/11/2024

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Recruitment and Management of Children’s Agency Social Workers (active)
  - Award id: `013883-2023-1`
  - Supplier(s): **HCL Workforce Solutions Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-59785`
  - Value: £12,000,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Recruitment and Management of Children’s Agency Social Workers (active)
  - Signed Value: £12,000,000
  - Signed Date: 14/05/2023

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F013883-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-05-16T10:32:51.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T12:24:53.612Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03a184