Contract Information
Dear Wokingham Borough Council,
I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please can you advise the following information –
Do you currently have a contract(s) in place with a Managed Service Provider for temporary staffing requirements?
Can you confirm who this/these are with?
Please advise the start date of this/these?
Please advise the end date of this/these?
Please advise the duration (including possible extensions)?
Please advise the categories of staff this contract(s) covers?
What’s the annual spend via the contract(s)?
Please advise the breakdown per category of the spend via the contract?
Is there any off contract spend? If so how much?
Does this only cover temporary or does it include permanent staffing?
If both, please advise the temporary/permanent split?
Yours faithfully,
Nicola Holmwood
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Dear Nicola Holmwood
RE: Freedom of Information Request Ref No: 9297
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Dear Nicola Holmwood,
RE: Freedom of Information Request Ref No: 9297
Thank you for your recent communication, please find detailed below the information in response to your request.
I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
1. Do you currently have a contract(s) in place with a Managed Service Provider for temporary staffing requirements?
-Yes, Wokingham Borough Council has a contract in place for Temporary Agency Staffing with a vendor neutral supplier through MSTAR2 framework.
a) Can you confirm who this/these are with?
-The service provider for Temporary Agency Staffing is Matrix SCM Limited.
b) Please advise the start date of this/these?
-Start date: 1st February 2016.
c) Please advise the end date of this/these?
-Expiry date: 31st January 2020.
d) Please advise the duration (including possible extensions)?
-Duration: 2 years initial term of the contract; option to extend for additional 2 years.
e) Please advise the categories of staff this contract(s) covers?
-The contract covers the following categories of staff:
1. Admin & Clerical
2. Children Services
3. Education (non-qualified)
4. Education (qualified)
5. Engineering & Surveying
6. Facilities & Environmental Services
7. Financial
8. Housing & Planning
9. Human Resources
10. Interims
11. IT
12. Legal
13. Management
14. Manual Labour / General Industrial
15. Procurement
16. Revenue & Benefits
17. Social Care - Qualified
18. Social Care – Unqualified
f) What’s the annual spend via the contract(s)?
-The annual spend over the year ending September 2017 is approximately £3.6 million.
g) Please advise the breakdown per category of the spend via the contract?
1. Admin & Clerical: £45,000
2. Children Services
3. Education (non-qualified)
4. Education (qualified)
5. Engineering & Surveying: £160,000
6. Facilities & Environmental Services
7. Financial: £125,000
8. Housing & Planning: £160,000
9. Human Resources:£95,000
10. Interims: £1,180,000
11. IT: £40,000
12. Legal: £65,000
13. Management: £205,000
14. Manual Labour / General Industrial
15. Procurement: £10,000
16. Revenue & Benefits: £80,000
17. Social Care - Qualified: £1,410,000
18. Social Care – Unqualified
h) Is there any off contract spend? If so how much?
-Off contract spend in the year ending September 2017 is £2.3 million.
i) Does this only cover temporary or does it include permanent staffing?
-The contract covers temporary staff only.
j) If both, please advise the temporary/permanent split?
-Not applicable.
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Yours sincerely
Stuart Bignell
Information Services
Customer Services
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