Workforce Solutions

This agreement gives all public sector organisations access to contractors and temporary workers, through a single managed service provider (MSP).

Description

Public sector organisations can access a workforce programme offering professional, managerial, operational and administrative workers through a wide range of delivery routes, including statements of work (SOW). The programme is made possible by a single managed service provider (MSP), working closely with the CCS category team.

This programme offers various ways to recruit skilled people for your organisation. A single MSP can work with you to find the best approach. They’ll help you use the service to meet your business goals and workforce needs.

This agreement lets you hire workers for specialist, operational and administrative roles. It includes these services:

• sourcing temporary workers who are paid hourly or daily rates, with strict processes to ensure compliance with baseline personnel security standards (BPSS) vetting and key legislation such as theAgency Worker Regulations (AWR) andoff-payroll working (IR35)
• engagement through statements of work (SOW): this is where a supplier is engaged through Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS) to deliver a set of specific and pre-defined outcomes on a fixed fee basis
• recruit-train-deploy (RTD): where a supplier recruits individuals and trains them to have the needed skill set before placing them into your organisation to work and learn
• permanent recruitment: services to recruit permanent, fixed-term term and internal secondment roles through recruitment agencies
• resource augmentation partnering: often known as the ‘employed resource model’, this establishes a relationship with one or more organisations that have permanent employees with the desired skill set, the partner then deploys their employees to your organisation on request, on an agreed day rate, to quickly fill urgent needs
• campaigns: AMS will help you find a specialist firm to run larger recruitment campaigns, which can cover temporary, fixed term and/or permanent roles to offer full access to the talent market according to your needs.

Permanent recruitment, resource augmentation partnering, and campaign services will not be available when the agreement starts. We will introduce these services into the agreement at a later date.

AMS are the MSP for this agreement. You will be able to award call-off contracts directly to this supplier without needing to run a further competition. When you place your call-off contract you will be able to select the service lines you want to use.

Building on the successes of RM3749 Public Sector Resourcing (PSR), this is a managed contingent labour programme closely supported by the category team in CCS. Contingent labour is a term for a workforce that is hired on a temporary or on-demand basis. PSR involved a significant continuous improvement programme to enhance the services, as well as detailed support to our customers when legislative changes, such as the changes to IR35, occur to help our customers make the transition smoothly and compliantly.

Key strengths of the PSR framework have been retained, including the use of a single vendor management system (VMS), with other integrated tools. This provides detailed data across all the services, supporting customers to understand the full makeup of their contingent workforce and, with advice from AMS, make the best use of the range of service lines to secure the best possible value for money.

This agreement will run for 6 years, followed by an 18-month transition period. During this time, new customers will not be able to join, but existing call-off contracts can continue.

Depending on your internal governance, you can award a call-off contract for as long as you need. This can include having a call-off contract for an initial fixed period followed by options to extend.

You can also find more details about the services available through this framework, as well as case studies, on thePSR website.

Benefits

• account management team to advise and support hiring managers, freeing them to focus on their core jobs
• a simple, streamlined and user-focused solution for hiring high-quality temporary workers and contractors
• different ways to hire workers, such as directly through our MSP provider, referral nominated (quickly hiring a contractor who you have already worked with), tailored recruitment for specialised roles
• flexibility to meet the changing needs of departments and the contingent labour market
• compliant workers in line with Cabinet Office Controls
• The PSR marketplace allows companies to hire directly, helping to save money
• Fieldglass: cloud software used to support/manage elements of the service including raising requests, timesheet approvals, reporting and invoicing
• clear information on costs, performance and spending, while also offering reports on supply and demand trends

Carbon Reduction

All suppliers for this agreement have committed to comply with the Procurement Policy Note 06/21: 'Taking account of Carbon Reduction Plans in the procurement of major government contracts' as required. If a supplier is required to publish a carbon reduction plan, you can find it on their individual supplier details page.

Products and suppliers

There are 1 suppliers on this agreement

• Lot 1: Workforce Solutions:

  Contingent Labour

  • non-agency supply
  • agency supply
  • direct hire
  • segmented talent pools
  • pre-identified workers (including referrals and nominated workers)
  • other innovative and emerging non-agency supply

  The types of contingent worker categories in scope of this framework agreement are:

  • professional interims
  • administration and clerical workers
  • operational workers

  Statement of Works (SOW)

  SOW’s are set packages of output-based work with payment against agreed outcomes that outline specific services the supply chain is expected to deliver. Outcomes will be measured against milestones and deliverables including: the type, level, quality and cost of service, as well as the time schedule required. Services delivered under an SOW may include:

  • supply chain design and implementation
  • tailored supply chain management
  • provider management.

  Recruit, Train, Deploy (RTD)

  Workers that are employed by an RTD supplier, are suitably trained and deployed to the customer temporarily. ;

  Resource Augmentation

  AMS must design and implement a resource augmentation supplier chain with significant numbers of appropriately skilled and experienced staff on their payroll.

  • workers who are typically professionals in high demand to be sourced at short notice, typically in high-volume requirements
  • workers will be employees of the appointed resource augmentation supplier
  • AMS must then liaise directly with a customer to understand resource requirements, providing employees on a day rate, at short notice
  • AMS retains responsibility for ensuring vetting checks have been completed in line with BPSS and/or equivalent level required

  Permanent Recruitment

  • workers that undertake a permanent or fixed-term position within an organisation
  • typically in the Civil Service, these roles range from administrative officers (AO) to grade 6 (G6)
  • executive search roles are not in scope

  Campaigns:

  Surge-based hiring for high quantities of replicable skills to a predetermined time frame typically supporting emergency / strategic programmes.

  • AMS will manage a process to appoint an agency to meet a specific customer need and can support both contingent labour and permanent recruitment or a combination of both, where the customer would accept workers by either route

  Overseas Workers

  • workers that undertake a temporary contract to provide contingent labour workers based outside of the UK
  • AMS shall ensure all requirements meet all relevant legislation and requirements of the country where the worker is engaged (if applicable)

  Expires: 05/08/2031

  1 suppliers

How to buy

All services are sourced directly from AMS

Customers can engage directly with AMS. All existing PSR customers have been/will be contacted by AMS to transition over to the new framework. New customers can engage directly by emailing AMS. Alternatively, you can contact CCS first if you prefer.

AMS will take customers through the buying journey, including populating the call-off order form (framework schedule 6) for customers to review. All content required for input to award a call-off is available in the call-off order form

Agreement pricing request

Call-off schedule 5: pricing details contain the fee tables for this agreement, including volume-based discounts at a framework level and when they would be triggered.

If you are looking for the rate card for worker day rates, liaise directly with your AMS relationship director by sending them an email.