Recruitment of Permanent Information Technology Positions

HS2 Ltd have an urgent requirement to recruit permanent IT Technology staff to support key programme milestones. HS2 require a specialist recruitment agency to conduct an extensive search of the market in order to attract the best talent, including passive candidates within a timescale of eight weeks commencing from the 7th July 2015. Suppliers will need to pre-qualify and submit a detailed tender response by 12:00 Noon, 25th June 2015.

Suppliers are required to clearly explain how they have conducted similar searches across the UK and specifically outside the rail and construction industry to source talent. This must be accompanied by case studies and evidence of previous experience highlighting how previous campaigns have been completed successfully delivering the clients brief.

Equality Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) is extremely important to HS2 Ltd and we are conscious of the industry challenges. Suppliers will be required to submit examples of reaching out to traditionally under represented sectors of society, such as women, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates and those requiring innovative and flexible ways of working. ED&I policies and practices are to be presented within the tender to demonstrate the suppliers capability to meet HS2 required standards.

The supplier’s demonstrable ability to meet the project milestones, including the capability and capacity of the delivery team must provide HS2 Ltd the confidence in the supplier’s ability to fulfill this requirement.

All documentation submitted must be verifiable through testimonials or references if required.

Additional information: HS2 Ltd will host this tender opportunity using its own e-sourcing portal powered by BravoSolutions. In order to access the full tender documentation, suppliers must undertake the following steps. Registration If your organisation is not already registered on the HS2 eSourcing Portal, please follow the following steps: a) Follow the link: https://hs2.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html b) Click the ‘Register now!’ link. c) Click “I agree” on the User Agreement, followed by “next”. d) Enter your business and user details. e) Note the username you use and click ‘save’ when complete. f) You will then receive an e-mail with your unique password. For noting, it is possible for your organisation to register more than once and therefore it may be worth double checking with your sales team that you are not already registered. Accessing the tender documents: Once you have registered on the HS2 eSourcing Portal, please follow the following steps to access the tender documents: a) Login using your unique username and password. b) Click on the ‘My ITTs’ link. c) Click on the ITT code. You can now access any attachments by clicking the ‘settings and buyer attachments’ in the actions box. d) Download the documents relating to the ITT. Click ‘attachments’ on the left hand side. The number in brackets refers to number of documents that need to be downloaded. Click on the bold and underlined filename. Select ‘save’ and store on your PC. Please note that when full access to the eSourcing Portal has been received, all communications must take place through this mechanism. Instructions on completing the ITT through the HS2 eSourcing Portal are contained in the Request for Expressions of Interest document. If you need any further assistance in reference to the system, please contact the BravoSolution helpdesk which is available Monday to Friday (8:00 am to 18:00 pm) GMT via email – [email protected] or by telephone on +44 8003684850.