CO0096 Temporary and Permanent Worker Supply Chain

The purpose of this tender is to install a direct supply chain for temporary and permanent hires, where the contractual arrangement will be held between ECC and the agency supplier. Agency suppliers will be required to use our partner's time and billing technology when temporary staff are placed (permanent hires can be invoiced directly to the council).

To support delivery of our resourcing strategies we now need to secure partners to deliver our vision of an effective agency supply chain, reflecting ECC’s ambition to use agency suppliers effectively and to support our in-house delivery. We are looking for suppliers who can enable our vision that ECC will deliver the right talent at the right time.

We are looking to partner with agency suppliers who can own the contractual engagement of our temporary workforce. Weekly payroll activity such as timesheet, and billing will be managed by our service provider. The agency supplier will pay their temporary workers directly, upon approved timesheets in the mentioned technology platform. ECC attract workers across all worker categories and types directly in the first instance and then the roles we require support with will be released to our supply chain of third-party agencies.. Our agency partners will own the contractual engagement of the temporary workers provided to ECC as well as the other services described. For agency hires that the agency will manage the timesheet, payment and billing via our partner and their provided technology.

Suppliers will need to provide an adaptive, legally compliant service and use ECC technology platforms to upload CV’s for consideration and our partners technology to manager timesheet, payroll and billing. For temporary hires we require agency contractually engage our temporary workers, contracting such workers to deliver services in the following ways:

• PAYE hourly rate contract for services

PAYE daily rate contract for services

• Ltd Company hourly rate contract for services
• Ltd Company daily rate contract for services
• Statement of work arrangements whereby temporary services are only paid upon

deliverable milestones not time worked, both PAYE and Ltd Company

• Pay per assessment arrangements whereby temporary services are only paid upon

deliverable assessments not time worked, both PAYE and Ltd Company

• Umbrella arrangements via compliant umbrella companies (only FCSA compliant umbrella

organisation may be used).

• Able to adapt and deliver to emerging working arrangement in the talent marketplace

ECC also supports partner Essex Public Sector organisations with their temporary recruitment, such as Unitary, Borough and District Councils, subsidiaries, LATVs and LATCs, County council and local councils.

There is the expectation that agency utilisation may increase.

Event: Entry to DPS

Procedure: open

Sector: Temporary & Agency Staff