Protocols for engagement of professional service providers

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Dear Monmouthshire 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

Hoggins, Averil M., Monmouthshire County Council

Dear A J Bishop

I refer to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

The response to your request is as follows:

Temporary staff are recruited externally from a contract they we have with a national company, they have been selected via the National Procurement Service framework for a Managed Service for the Provision of Agency Workers.

The procurement of consultants is devolved to the Heads of Service, where applicable they will utilise a National Procurement Service framework for Consultancy Services, for requirements that are not within scope of the framework Heads of Service are required to comply with internal Contract Procedure Rule to source the market

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