Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2017-08-01
Buyer: The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 79600000 | 79610000
Estimated value: 400000000 GBP

Technical requirements: Crown Commercial Service as the contracting authority wishes to establish a pan government Framework Agreement for the provision of Permanent Recruitment Services, intended for access by all UK public sector bodies including Central Government Departments and their Arm's Length Bodies and Agencies, Non Departmental Public Bodies, NHS bodies, Local Authorities, Devolved Administrators and Emergency Services and other bodies who will be named in the OJEU contract notice. This framework aims to establish an agreement with a comprehensive range of suppliers providing national and regional coverage. CCS wishes to carry out market engagement to test assumptions behind the proposed lot structure and services. Further details on this procurement and our engagement can be found here: http://ccs-agreements.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/procurement-pipeline Once available the ITT documentation for this procurement will be available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge on the CCS website.
It is anticipated that the services to be covered by this Procurement will be sub-divided into 9 Lots based on role professions:
Provision of services to support the permanent recruitment (including fixed term appointments) of junior grades across multi role professions.
Provision of services to support the permanent recruitment (including fixed term appointments) of DDaT (including cyber security roles).
Provision of services to support the permanent recruitment (including fixed term appointments) of Commercial roles. Example roles (but not limited to) include those in procurement, policy and project management.
Provision of services to support the permanent recruitment (including fixed term appointments) of Finance roles. Example roles (but not limited to) include accountants, auditors and analysts.
Provision of services to support the permanent recruitment (including fixed term appointments) of HR roles. Example roles (but not limited to) include recruitment, workforce management and HR policy.
Provision of services to support the permanent recruitment (including fixed term appointments) of Marketing roles. Example roles (but not limited to) include communications, events, campaign and press managers.
Provision of services to support the permanent recruitment (including fixed term appointments) of Legal roles. Example roles (but not limited to) include paralegals and lawyers.
Provision of services to support the permanent recruitment (including fixed term appointments) of Executive Search and Selection. Multi role specialisms, grade 6 — SCS3.
Provision of services to support the permanent recruitment (including fixed term appointments) of non-executive and executive search and selection of multi role professions.
CCS led Webinar — date (mid August) to be confirmed via ‘Permanent Recruitment’ page on the CCS procurement pipeline web page. Details on how to register your interest on the CCS webinars will also be made available via the ‘Permanent Recruitment’ page on the CCS procurement pipeline web page. Participation in any of the activities is not a pre-requisite to participating in the procurement. Details of the outputs of these activities will be published on the Crown Commercial Service website http://ccsagreements.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/procurement-pipeline/permanentrecruitment and made available to any supplier unable to attend a session due to being unavailable or the events being oversubscribed. Market Engagement will be managed electronically via the Crown Commercial Service's e-Sourcing Suite. To participate in this Market Engagement, participants must first be registered on the e-Sourcing Suite. https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk


Award value: 400000000