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TEMPORARY WORKER SUPPORT SERVICES

Buyer: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL →

BuyerESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published5 Aug 2021

What is being bought

To support delivery of our resourcing strategies we now need to secure a partner to deliver our vision of temporary worker support services, reflecting ECC's ambition to continue to minimise the use of third-party recruitment agency suppliers and to adopt a talent pool first approach. We are looking for a supplier who can enable our vision that ECC will source it's own temporary talent directly or via our own supply chain and that our chosen partner will provide the technology and service to deliver the engagement of this temporary workforce both contractually and for all timesheet and billing purposes. We are looking to partner with a temporary worker support service provider who can own the contractual engagement of our temporary workforce, weekly payroll, timesheet, and billing of all temporary workers that will be sourced by the ECC inhouse recruitment team both directly and via our own supply chain of third-party agencies. ECC will attract workers across all worker categories and types either directly or via our own supply chain of third-party agencies. Recruitment and attraction of new temporary staff is out of scope of this procurement and will be managed by ECC. We expect our partner would own the contractual engagement of our directly sourced temporary workforce as well as the other services described, we expect for agency hires that the agency provider (via the ECC DPS) will manage the contractual engagement with our partner responsible for the timesheet, payment and billing to agency suppliers via their provided technology. The supplier will need to provide an adaptive, legally compliant service and exemplary technology platform to ECC which enables the service provider to contractually engage our temporary workers, contracting such workers to deliver services in the following ways: • PAYE hourly rate contract for candidates directly sourced by ECC • PAYE daily rate contract for candidates directly sourced by ECC • Ltd Company hourly rate contract for services directly sourced by ECC • Ltd Company daily rate contract for services directly sourced by ECC • Statement of work arrangements whereby temporary services are only paid upon deliverable milestones not time worked, both PAYE and Ltd Company directly sourced by ECC. • Pay per assessment arrangements whereby temporary services are only paid upon deliverable assessments not time worked, both PAYE and Ltd Company directly sourced byECC. • Umbrella arrangements via compliant umbrella companies. • Able to adapt and deliver to emerging working arrangement in the talent marketplace The service must also allow ECC to place temporary workers found via third party agencies on to the timesheet and billing technology platform which must be fully integrated with the Councils existing P2P solution.

Delivery location

UKH

Categories

Payroll management services 79211110

Lot details

Lot 1

Provision of a technology platform which will enable ECC to transfer its existing direct temporary workers to the new arrangements and continue to build its own direct workers across all staffing categories through the life of the contract. The platform must also allow ECC to transfer its existing third part agency workers to the technology platform, ECC will transfer the agency contractual relationship to our own agency supply chain DPS. The use of industry standard technology which achieves a fully automated purchase to pay (P2P) process from requisition through to invoicing and payments through establishment of systems interfaces between the VMS and ECC's systems for both direct temporary workers and those represented by ECC third party agency suppliers. Over the last year the volume of temporary workers has been around 10% of our workforce. This represents up to 650 temporary workers engaged at anyone time, not taking account of seasonal variations, which can increase the number of workers. On average there are currently around 40 new temporary workers each month. The average length of engagement for temporary workers is 2.19 years; tenure is highest in the Place & Public Health function (2.78 years), and lowest in the Finance & Technology function (just under 5 months). Of the 523 live assignments approximately 40% are casual 'as and when' workers. Currently around 70% of the population are directly sourced. The future temporary worker supply service will provide efficient, agile and proactive temporary worker support services that are flexible and scalable to accommodate anticipated workforce and organisational changes in demand and supply. This will enable ECC to identify agile and cost-efficient sourcing solutions; and support delivery of our People Plan (provided separately) and emerging strategic workforce plans. A service which uses its recruitment expertise to ensure ECC is fully compliant to all relevant temporary worker legislation including IR35 and AWR and pro-actively guides ECC when needed in respect of legislative changes. Engagement, payroll and billing of temporary workers both for volume and seasonal recruitment campaigns: this will ensure ECC is able to maintain frontline service delivery e.g. country parks and outdoor centres, as well as adult community learning. Management of temporary workers that is compliant with legislation and any anticipated changes: the provider will ensure that the temporary workforce is compliant e.g. pension auto enrolment, Working Time Regulations and Agency Worker Regulations etc.; and will also work in partnership with ECC to scope, plan and deliver responses to any legislative changes. Ensuring all temporary and interim workers are paid within agreed, and consistently applied, pay rates which demonstrate value for money for ECC and that full and transparent reporting is easily available to ECC showing the detailed breakdown of worker pay rate, individuals statutory costs, agency margins and supplier margins. In addition to the technology platform outlined in above the preferred bidder will also manage the transfer of existing direct temporary workers including working with the incumbent provider, the direct temporary workers and ECC. The provider will manage the transfer of all existing direct temporary staff ensuring a smooth transfer with no negative impact to the existing direct temporary workforce, 0 days of down time to service and 100% accuracy on 1st payroll of new arrangements for direct hires and 100% accuracy of payment to our supply chain. The cost of implementation of services will be met be the successful supplier and should be considered when completing your pricing proposal.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality and Social Value — 70
Price and Price Quality — 30

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Not publishedNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Payroll management services (79211110); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 7913,7404 median · 30.9 average (5,803 of 13,740 with a bid count)3.2 average (6,507 of 13,740 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer126 median · 26 average (1 of 1 with a bid count)7 average (1 of 1 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UKH4124 median · 80.1 average (145 of 412 with a bid count)6.6 average (168 of 412 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Contracts

018886-2021-1

Statusactive
Value£16,000,000

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-02b3c6
Latest release ID018886-2021
Latest release timestampThu Aug 05 2021 12:10:37 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
5 Aug 2021award, contract018886-2021
21 May 2021tender011348-2021

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
5 Aug 2021 · 018886-2021 · award, contract
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21 May 2021 · 011348-2021 · tender
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