The Provision of Recruitment Services for the Government Legal Department

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    "description": "RFI Scope \nGLD requires information on the provision of recruitment and associated assessment services for qualified lawyers at G7 and G6 levels, early talent schemes (including legal trainees and others), recruitment of permanent staff for other corporate roles and at SCS level plus media and advertising provision for all the above roles. The support we need from providers:\nWe invite your organisation to attend an online, MS Teams briefing session where we will set out GLD's recruitment requirements. We will answer questions about what we might need and invite all providers to submit their views in writing to support the development of a specification.\nIf we choose to proceed with a procurement, we will return to the market with a specification supported by our engagement with the market.\nBackground To GLD\nThe Government Legal Department is the largest provider of legal services across government, working on high profile matters that are frequently scrutinised in Parliament and the media. Our work includes:\n•\tDeveloping and drafting legislation\n•\tProviding legal advice on policies \n•\tSecuring our economic and trade relationships\n•\tEnsuring value from commercial contracts worth billions of pounds\n•\tProviding the Civil Service's employment law advice\n•\tWe are at the heart of delivering the Government's priorities and our success depends on our people. \nGLD is a non-ministerial government department, sponsored by the Attorney General. We are headed by the Treasury Solicitor, our Permanent Secretary and employ over 3400 people, including over 2600 legal professionals. Our offices include London, Leeds, Bristol, Croydon and Manchester as well as overseas. We provide specialist legal services including Litigation, Employment and Commercial Law as well as advising most Government Departments on the policies and services they deliver.\nGLD also depends on a range of vital corporate services. These are essential to the smooth and efficient running of the Department and provide the foundation to enable GLD to deliver outstanding legal services. Our corporate functions include Strategy, HR, Finance, Digital, Data and Technology, Communications, Security, Commercial and Project delivery. \nOur vision is to be an outstanding legal organisation and a brilliant place to work where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. This is an exciting time for GLD, with cutting edge legal work on global issues and a transformation agenda which is ensuring the Department exemplifies the Modern Civil Service. \nBackground to the Requirement\nOur Requirements\nGLD's HR Department provide recruitment and associated assessment services for our legal specialisms and corporate services. We also provide media and advertising for these roles. GLD is looking for a recruitment partner that will provide these services.\nWhat do we need?\nWe require provision of the following services:\nG6 and G7 Lawyers - recruitment process outsourcing for permanent G7 and G6 lawyers, including for specialist roles.  \nEarly Talent Scheme - recruitment and associated assessment services for legal trainee solicitors and pupil barristers. Also includes solicitor apprentice, law placement schemes and paralegals and Executive Officer (EO) and Higher Executive Officer (HEO) levels. \nCorporate Services - recruitment of permanent roles for all our corporate services teams.\nSenior Civil Servant (SCS) - assessments, sifting/pre-sifting for high volume campaigns, help with end-to-end recruitment process should volume of campaigns surge unexpectedly at SCS1 level. Talent mapping in specific locations e.g. Manchester/Leeds recently\nMedia and Advertising - advice on relevant media (online and/or offline) for all the above roles, develop and deliver social media strategy across GLD and suppliers' channels, arranging for adverts to be placed on agreed media etc.\nManagement Information - identify management information required to effectively deliver the service, provide insight and reporting, use data to improve the end-to-end process.\nContinuous Improvement - actively identify ways to improve the end-to-end service and implement agreed actions.  Work with GLD to implement already identified process improvement processes e.g. assessment type/approach.",
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        "country": "GB",
        "locality": "London",
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        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
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        "id": "016033-2025",
        "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/016033-2025",
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        "noticeType": "UK2",
        "description": "Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender",
        "documentType": "marketEngagementNotice",
        "datePublished": "2025-04-17T16:11:56+01:00"
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        "id": "engagement",
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        "status": "scheduled",
        "dueDate": "2025-05-27T23:59:59+01:00",
        "description": "GLD will host an event on MS Teams, to receive details of this event and to express an interest in attending please write to bids@governmentlegal.gov.uk - the event will be at 2pm on Tuesday 20th May\nFollowing the event, you are invited to make a written submission about your views on our needs.  We would ask you to limit this to one document of five A4 pages not including the cover sheet to be submitted to bids@governmentlegal.gov.uk by 2pm on Tuesday 27th May\nAfter written submissions, GLD is likely to decide on next steps of its procurement options by July 2025."
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