Decision details

To approve the award of a contract to Reed Recruitment for the search and selection of permanent staff.

RESOLVED - That:
Award the contract to Reed following the Direct Award procurement process.

Option 1 - Do nothing
Services will either have to resort to a more costly temporary staffing solution via the existing temporary staffing contract or leave the vacancy unfilled with the potential impact on service delivery. There is also the risk that services will engage a recruitment agency without the service being procured via the required process and that associated spend will go unmonitored.
Option 2 - Award the contract to Reed following the Direct Award procurement process
An existing Local Government direct award procurement framework that meets the Councils requirements has been identified. Reed, who currently provide the Council’s temporary agency staffing solution, have been assessed as providing the best value for money and quality of the providers on the framework.
Option 3 - Run a further competition procurement process
This will allow the council to assess more bidders for the contract however this will delay the establishment of the service impacting the ability of services to fill vacant roles.

Option 1
Option 2

The process undertaken complies with point 4.1 of the Council’s Contract Procedure Rules.