East Lothian Council
FOI Ref: 2022/ELF3717
1) What was the value of spend on temporary staff from
recruitment agencies by the Council in 2020 – 2021 and 2021
– 2022?
Please also ensure that a gross spend value is detailed and
include all spend associated to any contract let for the
management/provision of temporary staff by a contracted
provider (whether Vendor neutral or Master vendor). Please
ensure that all figures are provided separately by year.
Please refer to Appendix I overleaf.
2) If you have a managed service provider (MSP) in place for
the provision of temporary agency staff, please provide the
following;
a. How was the contract to manage/provide the supply of
agency/temporary staff let?
b. Who was the contract to manage/provide the supply of
agency/temporary staff let to?
c. When did the contract to manage / provide the supply of
temporary /agency staff commence, how long does it run
for and what is the end date?
This information is published in our Contracts Register on Public
Contracts Scotland. This means that, for the purposes of this
legislation, this part of your request is exempt under Section 25(1)
of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 as the
information is otherwise accessible. We have, however, provided a
link to the relevant page for your convenience:
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Contracts Scotland East Lothian Council has two agency
frameworks.
East Lothian Council
FOI Ref: 2022/ELF3717
Appendix I
Supplier
2020/21
2021/22
ASA International
106,301.12 99,743.25
Blue Arrow Ltd
124.11 8,520.64
Brightwork Ltd
172,228.70 307,739.21
*
180.00 360.00
Global Language Services Ltd
73.50
Hays Accountancy Personnel
282,639.83 305,476.40
*
340.00
MacDonald McEwan Limited
43,919.34
Midlothian Council
18,272.03
Office of the Public Guardian
91.00
Parity Professionals Ltd
37,287.61 19,818.33
Pertemps Recruitment
Partnership Ltd
277,757.77 289,727.71
Peter Stewart Estimating
326.40 1,200.00
Prime Industrial & Janitorial
Supplies Ltd
451.29
Ranstad Care Ltd
209,198.02 214,394.27
Sanctuary Personnel Ltd
50,621.40
Service Care Solutions Ltd
3,418.79
Seven Social Care
6,195.15
Stepping Out
975.00
Sustrans Limited
29,517.50
The Scottish Nursing Guild
1,425.68 2,028.66
The Social Care Community
Partnership
38,149.59
Tripod Partners
88,875.22 54,458.54
TWM Traffic Control Systems
Ltd
867.16
Venturing Out
10,030.00
Grand Total
1,262,808.37 1,419,924.85
*Please note that when information is released as the result of a freedom
of information request, or a request made under the Environmental
Information Regulations 2004, it is technically released to the general
public, and not just to the person or organisation making the information
request. In view of this, and in order to comply with Data Protection
legislation, it has been necessary to redact some information, i.e.: third
party data and data which could lead to the identification of individuals.