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 partner's time and billing
technology when temporary staff are placed (permanent hires can be invoiced directly to the
council).
To support delivery of our resourcing strategies we now need to secure partners to deliver
our vision of an effective agency supply chain, reflecting ECC’s ambition to use agency
suppliers effectively and to support our in-house delivery. We are looking for suppliers who
can enable our vision that ECC will deliver the right talent at the right time.
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. 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..
Our agency partners will own the contractual engagement of the temporary workers
provided to ECC as well as the other services described. For agency hires that the agency
will manage the timesheet, payment and billing via our partner and their provided
technology.
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
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.