DCWW 2015 - Recruitment Services Procurement

Dŵr Cymru Cyfyngedig, trading as Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water (DCC), is seeking to establish a Hybrid Managed Service Provider (MSP) Recruitment Framework to support its in-house recruitment function with the provision of temporary, interim, fixed-term contract (FTC) and permanent recruitment services across a range of specialist disciplines.
DCC currently operates a combination of in-house direct recruitment and recruitment agency support. The purpose of this procurement is to introduce a Hybrid MSP model that will provide DCC with greater control, visibility and consistency across its external recruitment activity, while retaining access to specialist recruitment expertise where required. The Framework is intended to support enhanced value for money, improved management information and expenditure visibility, robust compliance management, effective management of IR35 and payroll requirements, and a streamlined recruitment and workforce management process.
Under the Hybrid MSP model, DCC will retain its in-house recruitment function and overall governance and oversight of its recruitment requirements, while outsourcing defined recruitment and workforce management activities to MSP Suppliers appointed to the Framework. There will be no single lead MSP across the Framework. Instead, MSP Suppliers will be appointed to individual Lots according to their relevant specialist recruitment capability.
For requirements referred to the Framework, the relevant MSP Supplier will be responsible, as applicable, for candidate attraction, sourcing, screening and presentation; onboarding and pre-employment compliance activities; operational management of IR35 and other applicable tax and employment compliance requirements; payroll and bill-pay administration; workforce administration; and the provision of management information, expenditure reporting and associated workforce management services.
DCC will retain overall oversight of these activities, responsibility for its recruitment...