CO0096 Temporary and Permanent Work Supply Chain

The purpose of this tender is to install a direct supply chain for temporary and permanent hires, where the contractual arrangement will be held between ECC and the agency supplier. Agency suppliers will be required to use our partners (Matrix SCM) time and billing technology when temporary staff are placed (permanent hires can be invoiced directly to the council).

We are looking to partner with agency suppliers who can own the contractual engagement of our temporary workforce. Weekly payroll activity such as timesheet, and billing will be managed by our service provider Matrix SCM. The agency supplier will pay their temporary workers directly, upon approved timesheets in the mentioned technology platform. ECC attract workers across all worker categories and types directly in the first instance and then the roles we require support with will be released to our supply chain of third-party agencies.

Suppliers will need to provide an adaptive, legally compliant service and use ECC technology platforms to upload CV's for consideration and our partners technology to manager timesheet, payroll and billing. For temporary hires we require agency contractually engage our temporary workers, contracting such workers to deliver services in the following ways: • PAYE hourly rate contract for services • PAYE daily rate contract for services • Ltd Company hourly rate contract for services • Ltd Company daily rate contract for services • Statement of work arrangements whereby temporary services are only paid upon deliverable milestones not time worked, both PAYE and Ltd Company • Pay per assessment arrangements whereby temporary services are only paid upon deliverable assessments not time worked, both PAYE and Ltd Company • Umbrella arrangements via compliant umbrella companies (only FCSA compliant umbrella organisation may be used). • Able to adapt and deliver to emerging working arrangement in the talent marketplace

Agency suppliers must also allow ECC to place temporary workers found via third party agencies on to the timesheet and billing technology platform provided by our partner, which is fully integrated with the Councils existing P2P solution. Whilst the third-party recruitment agency will be responsible for the contractual engagement of the worker for agency sourced hires.

ECC also supports partner Essex Public Sector organisations with their temporary recruitment, such as Unitary, Borough and District Councils, subsidiaries, LATVs and LATCs, County council and local councils: What we do and what we don't - Essex County Council. ECC will manage the recruitment and billing process on behalf of those organisations.

There is the expectation that agency utilisation may increase.