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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…
Overview & Pricing for HSC International Permanent Recruitment for NHS in Northern Ireland
Critical Timescales Deadline for receipt of clarification questions – 3pm, 7th April 2021 Deadline for submission of the tender – 3pm, 14th April 2021 Registration & Accessing the Documents To access the documents and complete your tender, you must follow the instructions on the following link: https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=3339364 Tender Breakdown Complete Eligibility envelope (applicable to all…
How to Find Recruitment Tenders in the UK
I’m slightly afraid to mention the word “Brexit”, but I’m going to, as it’s all change as far as finding UK recruitment tenders goes! Since 1st January 2021, OJEU no longer publishes new UK tenders and this function has been taken over by the Government’s new “Find a Tender” service for high value contracts (usually…
Freebies – Free Documents available to Download from Brunton Bid Writing
At Brunton Bid Writing, we’ve decided to put aside some time in January to update some of our documents, and this includes all of the “freebies” on our website. We’ve now got the following documents available for you to download free of charge: 10 Top Tips for Writing Recruitment Tenders – as it sounds, this…
Transforming Public Procurement – Green Paper Overview
Just before Christmas, the Government published a green paper on “Transforming Public Procurement”. This is designed to “overhaul their outdated public procurement regime” and coincides with the UK taking control of its own public sector procurement post Brexit. This is a green paper, so anything could change during the consultation period between now and 10th…
