--- title: "Pre-employment Background Screening" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-02bb94" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-02bb94" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-02bb94.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-02bb94.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "THE BRITISH COUNCIL" published: "2021-06-14" --- # Pre-employment Background Screening Buyer: THE BRITISH COUNCIL Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-02bb94 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-02bb94) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-02bb94.json) ## Summary The British Council is initiating a procurement process for a "Pre-employment Background Screening" service aimed at enhancing their hiring practices across over 100 countries. The current stage of this procurement is in the planning phase, with a future notice expected on 30th July 2021. This tender encompasses recruitment services and is aimed at providers who can deliver technology-enabled background checks for approximately 2,000 new hires and rescreening for around 10,500 existing employees annually. Interested parties should express their interest through the British Council's procurement portal, following registration if necessary. This opportunity presents a significant avenue for business growth, particularly for companies specialising in recruitment, background verification, and investigative services. Businesses with capabilities in integrating technology with candidate management systems, especially those familiar with SAP Success Factors, will be well-positioned to bid. With the British Council's global reach and the need for tailored screening packages according to various risk profiles, this contract is ideal for firms looking to expand their service offerings in a dynamic, international environment. ## Notice The British Council will be seeking to appoint a suitable provider via a future tender to deliver Background Screening service who can support its PAS policy, This service will verify the background of approximately 2,000 new hires annually across 100+ countries and an annual rescreening programme of approximately 10,500 employees. The system should be capable of supporting web-based candidate data entry and integrate with our Candidate Management system (SAP Success Factors) for Orders and reporting. We are also interested in solutions that would enable us to screen consultants and contract workers to the same standards. ### Lot Information Lot 1 The British Council is looking for a global solution to support background screening of all new hire employees and ongoing annual rescreening cycle of approximately 10,500 employees The British council utilises SAP Success Factors so an ability to order screening via an integration to the recruitment module is a critical requirement. The British Council currently delivers global background screening via a combination of in-house resource and outsourced contract. Our intention is to continue to outsource all background screening for British Council employees to one global screening supplier.The British council is currently undergoing transformation and business realignment and anticipates needing to bring the screening of consultants and contractors into scope of the same model at a later dateKey Areas: Risk ProfileWe have identified four broad risk profiles for our new hire employees and require the supplier to be able to tailor their operation to deliver these different screening packages. Similarly, internal transfers between roles require 2 different screening packages and finally our existing employees have 3 different re-screening profiles.Operational reachWe are head quartered in the UK, but our in-house screening team are based in, India. We have operational bases in 100+ countries and require supplier capability to perform background screening checks in all our operational locations where legally permissible to do so.Technology and processThe solution should allow recruiters from 100+ country bases to order screening via their instance of Success Factors. We would expect the process to broadly run thus. Supplier acknowledges screening order and commences work; progress report feed is visible to recruiter via data feed to Success Factors recruitment requisition. Supplier updates Background screening team with progress on attempts to verify, seeking to minimise unable to verify and decisional elements. When screening is closed a report and snips or.pdf evidence is sent to British Council for audit and compliance purpose.Our orders for recurrent screening should ideally also integrate with SAP Success Factors, but will be ordered by our team in Noida, reports and evidence snips where necessary should be returned to British Council for upload into SAP Success FactorsAccount Management & Customer ServiceBritish Council requires one global account manager/lead to manage its screening requirements along with regional point of contacts for each region. However, attention should be paid to the global reach of our organisation and consideration given to an approach that supports a global corporate "head office" in London, UK and a service delivery manager and team based in Mumbai and Noida, India.Further details can be found in the PIN notice attached. Additional information: If you are interested in expressing an interest and/or bidding for this project, please go to https://in-tendhost.co.uk/britishcouncil . You may then have to register your company before you can express an interest for this project and get access the documents. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/013345-2021 | | Notice type | Planning Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | Not specified | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 14 Jun 2021 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 29 Jul 2021 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planned | | Lots status | Planned | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | THE BRITISH COUNCIL | | Locality | UNITED KINGDOM | | Post town | East London | | Postcode | E20 1JQ | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLI London | | ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East | | ITL 3 | TLI41 Hackney and Newham | | Local authority | Newham | | Electoral ward | Stratford Olympic Park | | Westminster constituency | Stratford and Bow | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security ### Codes - 79600000 - Recruitment services - 79710000 - Security services - 79720000 - Investigation services ## Release History - 14 Jun 2021 at 11:54 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/013345-2021 ## Notice URLs - https://in-tendhost.co.uk/britishcouncil - https://www.britishcouncil.org/ ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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