Title: PS003 — Temporary and Permanent Agency Staff
Short description: Birmingham City University (the University) has a framework requirement for temporary and permanent agency staff and is conducting this procurement using the restricted procedure. The aim of the framework is to provide a reliable and high standard quality of service delivery in placing agency workers within the University for temporary and permanent staff. The staff will be working in corporate roles across the 2 sites, the University campuses and the City South Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences. The services are divided into the following lots:
Lot 1: Administration – This lot will require suppliers that can meet high volumes of requests for job roles in a number of departments across the University that require staff to start at the same time. Administration staff will be working in corporate roles across the2 sites, the University campuses and the City South Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences.
Lot 2: IT: IT Staff will be working in corporate roles across the 2 sites, the University campuses and the City South Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences.
- Lot 2A IT operational – This lot is for IT staff ranging from infrastructure engineers, system/business analysts, application analysts and security management specialists,
- Lot 2B design and development – this lot is for IT staff for programme and project management, technical architects, business analysts, solution development and integration.
Lot 3: Finance & Procurement: Finance and procurement staff will be working in corporate roles across the 2 sites, the University campuses and the City South Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences.
- Lot 3A: Qualified roles including qualified roles in accountancy, management accountants, deputy management accountants and procurement,
- Lot 3B: part qualified and transactional; part qualified and transactional including payroll, credit control and accounts payable staff and procurement support.
Lot 4: HR; Staff will be working in corporate roles across the 2 sites, the University campuses and the City South Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences. Roles include HR business partners and HR advisors.
Lot 5: legal; Staff will be working in corporate roles across the 2 sites, the University campuses and the City South Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences. Roles will include qualified legal staff solicitors and paralegals.
Lot 6: estates and facilities; Staff will be working in corporate roles across the 2 sites, the University campuses and the City South Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences. This requirement includes soft facilities management services which includes front line services and also hard facilities management services such as tradesman and building related roles. There is a requirement for candidates to have strong customer experience as these roles will be customer facing to students, staff and visitors.
Lot 7: executive recruitment. Staff will be working in corporate roles across the 2 sites, the University campuses and the City South Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences. Each assignment will be competed with suppliers to provide the most suitable candidate at an appropriate cost within the required timeframe. The requirement will include but is not be limited to Executive Directors, Directors, CFOs and COOs.
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system: 48 months
Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited: minimum 3 and maximum 10.
Type of procedure: Restricted Procedure
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 12pm, 3rd January 2020
Birmingham City University
Procurement Department, City Centre Campus, 1st Floor, Joseph Priestley Building, 6 Cardigan Street, Birmingham, B4 7BD
Contact person: Professional Services Category Manager
E-mail: claire.donnelly@bcu.ac.uk
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