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HTE – Temporary Staffing Tender Overview
Critical Timescales Stage 1 – Selection Questionnaire – Submission Deadline 1pm, Friday 15th December 2024. Stage 2 – Award Questionnaire – ITT due to be published 8th March 2024 with a submission deadline of 1pm, Monday 15th April 2024. Contract Award date – Monday 2nd September 2024. Lotting Structure & Services This tender will cover…
HTE – National & International Permanent Recruitment Framework Overview
Critical Timescales Stage 1 – Selection Questionnaire – Submission Deadline 1pm, Friday 15th December 2024. Stage 2 – Award Questionnaire – ITT due to be published 2nd February 2024 with a submission deadline of 1pm, Tuesday 5th March 2024. Contract Award date – Monday 8th April 2024. Lotting Structure & Services This tender will cover…
Workforce Alliance Clinical & Healthcare Staffing Tender Overview
GENERAL (NB LOTS 1-4 ONLY) Critical Timescales Deadline for receipt of clarification questions – 5pm, 6th March 2023. Deadline for Workforce Alliance responses to clarification questions – 8th March 2023. Deadline for submission of the bid – 11.59pm, 17th March 2023 – now extended to 14th April 2023. Intention to award letters published to all…
Workforce Alliance – Clinical & Healthcare Staffing Framework Financial Evaluation Overview
The following information was obtained from the webinar run by Workforce Alliance on 27th January 2023. This webinar was designed to provide prospective bidders with information about some elements of the bid, particularly in relation to economic and financial standing and social value. The following is an overview of the information provided in this webinar…
CCS Non Clinical Staffing Tender Overview
Critical Timescales Contract notice and ITT pack published – Friday, 21st October 2022. Deadline for asking clarification questions – 5pm, Monday 7th November 2022. Deadline for CCS to provide responses to clarifications – 5pm, Wednesday 16th November 2022. Bid submission deadline – 3pm, Monday 21st November 2022. Issue of intention to award notices to bidders…
Workforce Alliance RM6333 International Bid Overview
The Workforce Alliance has now published its tender documents for framework RM6333 for international healthcare professional recruitment and associated services. The following document provides a short overview for this bid to aid bid/no bid decisions. It also provides details on our pricing and services. Critical Timescales ITT Issued – 15th August 2022 Deadline for Receipt…
How to Write Impactful Proposals
When I’m asked to review proposals written by my clients, the biggest mistakes I see are: They’ve created a marketing document! It’s all about the agency, and focuses purely on what they want to tell the customer (rather than what the customer actually wants to know)! It’s too generic and isn’t aligned to the specific…
PPN 06/21 New Requirements for Carbon Reduction Plans in Public Sector Tenders
PPN 06/21 Carbon Reduction Plan The UK Government amended the Climate Change Act 2008 in 2019 by introducing a target of at least a 100% reduction in the net UK carbon account (i.e. reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, compared to 1990 levels) by 2050. This is otherwise known as the ‘Net Zero’ target. This has…
CCS Supply Teachers Tender Summary
General Information about the Framework This is a multi-supplier framework for recruitment of temporary and fixed term teachers and non-teaching staff for UK schools, colleges and educational establishments including nurseries, pupil referral units and children’s centres. Roles include head teachers, senior leaders and qualified/non-qualified teachers and education support staff (including supervisors and teaching assistants for…
CCS Permanent Recruitment 2 Tender Overview
General Information about the Framework This framework covers the supply of permanent, fixed term appointments and inward secondments throughout the UK to UK public sector bodies including central Government (and their arms-length bodies and agencies) and non-departmental public bodies as well as the wider public sector and NHS for clinical recruitment and general recruitment (non-clinical…
Supplying Recruitment Services to the NHS
If there is one question I get asked several times a day, it is this: “I run an off-framework agency and I want to supply healthcare recruitment services to the NHS – how can I do this?” The answer is pretty short and sweet – technically you need to be an approved supplier on the…
Added Value – How to Handle this Topic in Tenders
Added value…..you’ve read several hundred pages of specification, T&C and annexes and answered what feels like 500 (often seemingly repetitive) tender questions detailing exactly how you are going to provide the service for the price of two buttons and a safety pin and then you come across this…. “Please detail what added value you will…
