Recruitment services in Sheffield – Framework Lead

The current contract for Recruitment services in Sheffield is projected to end on 20/3/2018 and may be available for re-tender.The current contract for Recruitment services in Sheffield included the provision of a single framework agreement for a recruitment service for temporary labour for the Sharing In Growth programmes in accordance with the specification in the invitation to tender document. The period of the framework will be from 4.2013 to 31.12.2017 with the option to extend by one further year.Two programmes are proposed, one to address aerospace and the other to focus on the nuclear supply chain. With substantial funding from the Regional Growth Fund, the aerospace programme will be lead by Sharing in Growth UK Ltd in Derby and nuclear lead by the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Centre (The University of Sheffield) in Rotherham, both supported by Rolls-Royce. The programmes will provide concentrated training and development tailored to the assessed needs of each supplier and targeted at world class standards of performance.The roles the Authority expects to recruit are as follows and the successful supplier must be able to provide all of these skill-sets with experience in the aerospace and/or nuclear industry. At least two thirds of the requirement is for specialist engineering roles.Value EngineersManufacturing Engineering Programme ManagersManufacturing EngineersPurchasing SpecialistsAdministration Support Roles (SiG only) including Training and Contract Administrators and Finance analystsThe framework agreement will not guarantee the supplier any subsequent orders, but will enable the Authority to use the approved supplier without the need for further competition. Each organization (Sharing and Growth UK Ltd and The University of Sheffield) will place separate call-off orders for their own requirements. They will each have their own ordering and invoicing systems and their own contract managers which will act as a single point of contact for each organization. In addition, where Beneficiaries have been approved by UoS, they will be able to place call-off orders directly (funded by the RGF).This is a Voluntary advertisement as the services to which the procurement relates fall within Part B of Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended) (the Regulations) and Annex IIB to Council Directive 2004/18/EC. As such, all stages of the tender process will not be subject to the requirements of the Regulations except those applicable to Part B services. Although the Authority intends that the tender process will follow a procedure similar to the open procedure in certain respects, for the avoidance of doubt the Authority is not running the process as though the open procedure applies, and so reserves the right to depart from that procedure at any point.