People and Professional Services (Local Councils)

Our contracts help you manage a range of needs from urgent temporary staff, employing a consultant to deliver a complex project, a translation service or qualified signing person. Our compliantly procured contracts add value to a school,  academy or organisations ever-increasing work load.

Our frameworks offer high quality solutions for:

Agency staff

We work with our agency provider to offer a ‘neutral vendor’ arrangement to the education market.  This arrangement provides the following benefits for all of our service level agreement clients:

• cost savings due to agreed fixed pence margin
• ability to source candidates from a range of recruitment agencies, but through one centralised process with greater visibility and control
• a local dedicated recruitment partner and an out of hours fulfilment/support team
• consistent, robust vetting process across all candidates and recruitment agencies
• streamlined and improved administration processes
• no temporarily to permanent fees should a competitive recruitment process be followed
• assistance in managing compliance documentation such as Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and qualifications
• management of statutory and legal agency worker regulations, IR35 legislation and pensions auto enrolment
• access to management information such as cost per job category, agency, school and saving reports

Lease Advisory Services

We have a framework which allows you to access lease facilities with carefully selected partners. The framework can be used to finance a wide range of purchases including any of your technology-based items including iPads, whiteboards, printers and multi-function devices and much more.

Customer benefits

• you are free to choose the best items, supplier and purchase price to meet your own requirements
• we eliminate the need to source leasing from equipment suppliers, which is typically far more expensive and is often a finance lease
• as part of the tender process we sourced finance quotes from multiple parties so that you do not have to
• the framework allows access to IIAS17 compliant operating leases, over two, three and four year terms
• the pre-tendered lease rates are easily applied to all product categories
• all leases are written on preferential lease documentation
• the framework is OJEU-compliant
• we have already reviewed the lease documentation, so you can be confident it doesn’t include any nasty surprises or surplus charges

Coverage

The lease advisory services framework can be used UK wide.