Section one: Contracting authority/entity
one.1) Name and addresses
Essex County Council
County Hall, Market Road
Chelmsford
CM1 1QH
Contact
Mr Andrew Beaver
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UKH3 - Essex
Internet address(es)
Main address
Buyer's address
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
CO0096 Temporary and Permanent Worker Supply Chain
Reference number
DN573901
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 79620000 - Supply services of personnel including temporary staff
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
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 (Matrix SCM) 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 Matrix SCM. 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 Matrix SCM their provided
technology (CR.Net).
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
Any existing temporary workers agency suppliers have onsite at ECC will transfer to the new
arrangements, ECC will transfer the agency contractual relationship to our own agency
supply chain DPS.
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: What we do and what we don't - Essex County Council.
ECC will manage the recruitment and billing process on behalf of those organisations.
There is the expectation that agency utilisation may increase.
Section six. Complementary information
six.6) Original notice reference
Notice number: 2021/S 000-025501
Section seven. Changes
seven.1) Information to be changed or added
seven.1.2) Text to be corrected in the original notice
Section number
IV.2.2
Instead of
Date
10 November 2021
Local time
5:00pm
Read
Date
23 November 2025
Local time
5:00pm
seven.2) Other additional information
The original date shown was the closing date for the initial round under the DPS. The revised date shows the closing date of the DPS itself.