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Dear Brentwood Borough Council,

Please can you provide me with the information detailed below?
What was the value of spend on temporary staff from recruitment agencies by the council in 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.
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?
d. Does your MSP cover Education recruitment?
e. If not, which provider do you use to fill Education specific roles?

Yours faithfully,

Rachael Quinn

FOI, Brentwood Borough Council

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Reference: FOI-446050102
Date of request: 22/08/2022
Title of request: Agency spend

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Reference: FOI-446050102
Date of request: 22/08/2022
Title of request: Agency spend
Information request:

Dear Brentwood Borough Council,

 

Please can you provide me with the information detailed below?

What was the value of spend on temporary staff from recruitment agencies
by the council in 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.

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?

d. Does your MSP cover Education recruitment?

e. If not, which provider do you use to fill Education specific roles?

Dear Rachael Quinn,

Thank you for your submitted request of where you requested information
about agencies. 

The information you requested is set out below:

1. What was the value of spend on temporary staff from recruitment
agencies by the council in 2021-2022?

The total spend from 1 April 2021 to the 31 March 2022 was £1,625,095.08

Please see below information with a breakdown of spend per agency for the
period of the 1 April 2021 to the 31 March 2022:

Name Amount
Opus People Solutions Group Ltd 375,428.54
Driver Hire (Chelmsford & Harlow) 352,215.77
Oyster Partnership 307,212.95
Sewell Staffing Ltd T/A Sector 217,207.93
Right Data Ltd 69,200.00
HSG Facilities Management Ltd 58,036.00
Park Avenue Recruitment 49,860.45
Sellick Partnership 37,838.01
Buckingham Futures 35,234.36
Joseph Hardy & Company Limited 34,193.95
Appletons Surveyors Ltd 23,000.00
Vivid Resourcing 21,724.50
Palamino Developments Ltd 14,875.00
Aurum Business Solutions Ltd 9,900.00
East of England LGA 5,700.00
Adecco UK Ltd 5,449.43
Individuals Paid 3,380.00
Miles Smith 3,375.00
Bureaulogic Ltd 791.95
One to One Personnel Limited 471.24

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?

For the period of 1 April 2021 to the 31 March 2022 we used a list of
preferred supplies when looking for temporary agency staff.

b. Who was the contract to manage/provide the supply of agency/temporary
staff let to?

As above we had a list of preferred suppliers for the period of the 1
April 2021 to the 31 March 2022.

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?

As above we had a list of preferred suppliers for the period of the 1
April 2021 to the 31 March 2022.

d. Does your MSP cover Education recruitment?

We are a district council so not responsible for Education.

e. If not, which provider do you use to fill Education specific roles?

As above we are a district council so not responsible for Education.

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