Protocols for engagement of professional service providers

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Dear Hillingdon Borough Council,

Could you please supply me with information relating to your engagement of individual temporary or contract workers or consultants to fulfil a need for 'specialist professional services'?

Do you operate organisation-wide (procurement) protocols, to control the number of potential sources for the service provision?

Or are department heads free to consider candidates from any source?

Or are one-person needs always met from an internal pool of expertise?

Where the choice of external support is restricted by protocols, is it limited to:
a single local/regional temporary worker agency?
more than one local/regional temporary worker agency?
a nationwide temporary worker agency with a specialism in the required service?
a nationwide generalist temporary worker agency?
a 'meta' agency, a single point of enquiry covering a number of temporary worker agencies (e.g Comensura)?
Other? (please specify)

If the route dictated by protocol does not provide a suitable candidate, how, if at all, is the protocol relaxed to ensure the need is met in a timely manner?

Yours faithfully,

A J Bishop

AF FOI, Hillingdon Borough Council

Dear  A J Bishop,

I am writing in response to your request for information under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000, received 06/11/17. 

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 we have 20 working days to
respond to your request.  Therefore the deadline for our response
is 04/12/17.

If we require further information or clarification from you in order to
assist us in responding to your request, or if we require a fee to be paid
before we can respond we will contact you shortly.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Michelle Barber

Members Liaison Officer /FOI Officer

Resident Services

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FOI ., Hillingdon Borough Council

FOI 6279360

Dear A J Bishop

I am writing in response to your request for information below.

As I understand it you are seeking to know:

Could you please supply me with information relating to your engagement of
individual temporary or contract workers or consultants to fulfil a need
for 'specialist professional services'?

Do you operate organisation-wide (procurement) protocols, to control the
number of potential sources for the service provision?

Or are department heads free to consider candidates from any source?

Or are one-person needs always met from an internal pool of expertise?

Where the choice of external support is restricted by protocols, is it
limited to:
a single local/regional temporary worker agency?
more than one local/regional temporary worker agency?
a nationwide temporary worker agency with a specialism in the required
service?
a nationwide generalist temporary worker agency?
a 'meta' agency, a single point of enquiry covering a number of temporary
worker agencies (e.g Comensura)?
Other? (please specify)

LBH has a preferred supplier list of agencies which is managed through the
recruitment outsourcer Guidant.  All recruitment requests go via this
agency list.
If this route does not produce a suitable candidate, then alternative
options are considered, with the prior approval of HR.

 

 

If you have any queries regarding this matter please do not hesitate to
contact me.

If you wish to request an internal review of our response you should
write, within 2 months, to:

Office Managing Partner, Legal Services, Civic Centre, High St, Uxbridge,
UB8 1UW (or via email to [1][Hillingdon Borough Council request email] marked for the attention
of the Office Managing Partner).

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future
communications.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The
Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s
Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

 

 

Siobhan Tierney

Senior Business Support Officer
Legal Services (3E 04)
London Borough of Hillingdon
Civic Centre
High Street
Uxbridge
UB8 1UW
01895 55(6923)

On 9 November 2017 at 11:18, AF FOI <[2]af[Hillingdon Borough Council request email]> wrote:

Dear  A J Bishop,

I am writing in response to your request for information under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000, received 06/11/17. 

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 we have 20 working days to
respond to your request.  Therefore the deadline for our response
is 04/12/17.

If we require further information or clarification from you in order to
assist us in responding to your request, or if we require a fee to be
paid before we can respond we will contact you shortly.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Michelle Barber

Members Liaison Officer /FOI Officer

Resident Services

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