Notice Information
Notice Title
Total Workforce Solutions III: Strategic Workforce Services
Notice Description
HTE, on behalf of Mid And South Essex NHS Foundation Trust placed a Contract Notice in the Find a Tender ("FTS") seeking expressions of interest for the provision of the agreement of Managed Bank, Managed Agency & Workforce Efficiency Solutions, which comprises of 4 Lots, as listed below: * Lot 2a (Managed Bank Solutions) enables Participating Authorities to access Suppliers who are capable of providing one or more staff groups of Flexible Workers through deployment of a Managed Bank. * Lot 2b (Managed Agency Solutions) facilitating access to Suppliers providing Temporary Workers and operating as a Prime Contractor via appropriate Sub-Contractor relationships with Employment Businesses and/or Employment Agencies. * Lot 2c (Workforce Efficiency & Optimisation Solutions) enables Participating Authorities to access Suppliers who are capable of providing workforce efficiency and optimisation solutions, that includes but is not limited to Bank and Agency Demand Solutions, Direct Engagement Services and Workforce Consultancy Support. * Lot 2d (Bundled Strategic Workforce Services) enables Suppliers awarded to both of Lots 2a and 2b to combine the provision of all the awarded Services under a single contract.
Lot Information
Managed Bank Solutions
Enabling the provision of Flexible Workers through deployment of a Managed Bank solution, the permissible scope of Lot 2a requires Suppliers to provide an outsourced or part outsourced staffing solution for the provision of one or more staff groups of Flexible Workers as detailed in the Specification, manage existing Flexible Workers within the Participating Authority (including staff transfers and transfer terms of employment under TUPE as applicable to the type of service required), introduce new Flexible Workers from the Supplier's Flexible Worker pool or through new candidate attraction to the Managed Bank, offer a software system that cascades any unfilled bank vacancies to Employment Businesses and/or Employment Agencies through an NHSE approved framework agreement (where the Participating Authority is part of the NHS), and undertake sourcing, engagement, administration and pre-employment screening in accordance with agreed contract terms and deliverables.
Managed Agency SolutionsEnabling the provision of Temporary Workers through deployment of a Managed Agency solution, the permissible scope of Lot 2b requires Suppliers to act as a Prime Contractor via appropriate Sub-Contractor relationships to manage Employment Businesses and/or Employment Agencies on behalf of the Participating Authority. Additionally successful bidders will be responsible for designing, scoping, implementing and developing a Managed Agency service offering across one or more of the staff groups of Temporary Worker as detailed in the Specification, provide on-site, dedicated resource and consultancy.
Workforce Efficiency & Optimisation SolutionsThe scope of Lot 2c includes the supply of workforce efficiency and optimisation solutions, that includes but is not limited to Bank and Agency Demand Solutions and Direct Engagement Services. Awarded Suppliers will demonstrate capability of offering all required Core Services for both Bank and Agency Demand Solutions and Direct Engagement to a Participating Authority under Lot 2c, in accordance with the Specification
Bundled Strategic Workforce ServicesThis Lot allows suppliers award to two (2) or more of Lots 2a, 2b and 2c to combine the full service provision of those Lots under a single contract.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04c285
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/018574-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Framework
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large, SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
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- CPV Codes
79610000 - Placement services of personnel
79620000 - Supply services of personnel including temporary staff
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £2,000,000,000 £1B-£10B
- Lots Value
- £2,001,000,000 £1B-£10B
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £1,051,000,000 £1B-£10B
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 1 May 20251 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 17 Jan 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 31 Mar 20251 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) acting on behalf of Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSE)
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM
- Postcode
- B15 1NU
- Postcode Area
- Birmingham
- Country
- England
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- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLG West Midlands (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLG3 West Midlands
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLG31 Birmingham
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
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- Local Authority
- Birmingham
- Electoral Ward
- Edgbaston
- Westminster Constituency
- Birmingham Edgbaston
Supplier Information
- Number of Suppliers
- 47
- Supplier Names
Agile Workforce Services Limited
All suppliers awarded to Lots 2a and 2b
Bloompage Consulting Limited t/a Access for Care
Clarity Workforce Technology Ltd
Digital Staff Solutions Ltd (t/a Florence)
HCRG Workforce & Sugarman Holdings Ltd
Holt Medical Recruitment Limited
Hunter Gatherer AHP Resourcing LTD
LOCUMTAP Limited (t/a Patchwork Health)
Liaison Financial Services Ltd
Litmus Workforce Solutions Ltd
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Matter Stream Limited t/a Advanta Healthcare
Orbtial Theory t/a Workforce Supply
Plus Us Workforce Services LLP
The Placement Group Healthcare Ltd.
Further Information
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