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Dear Mr Wren,

Thank you very much for your request for information below:

Just a slight correction, the post of Service director : HR & Shared
Transactional Services is contracted until 31.03.2012.

1. Capability & Performance Improvement Ltd.
2. £152,000 from 16.11.10 to 31.03.12.
3. Approx £117,677 (based on the contract period being 15.5 months).
4. The third party business was employed through an employment recruitment
exercise.
5. This decision was made by Will Godfrey - Director of Corporate
Services.
6. A previous Recruitment Campaign was run to recruit a Service Director
for Strategic HR - the recruitment process was abandoned as none of the
candidates passed the assessment process. 7. Because Capability &
Performance Improvement Ltd had the requisite skills/experience to fulfill
a difficult brief of managing both Strategic HR and a Shared Transactional
Service Centre.
8. No other HR employees at Bristol City Council have been or are
currently contracted by Capability & Performance Improvement Ltd.
9. We have no knowledge of any current HR employees being employed by any
third party business.
10. Not applicable.

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Sent on behalf of S McNamara, Head of Legal Services.
>>> Bill Wren <[FOI #64691 email]> 10/03/11 12:54
>>>
Dear Bristol City Council,

The post of Service Director: HR & Shared Transactional Services is
currently filled by a third party business, contracted until
September 2012.

Could you please provide me with:

- the name of the third party business

- the total value of the contract with the third party business

- the yearly value of the contract with the third party business

- information on the tendering process used to procure the third
party business

- under whose delegated authority the decision to use a third party
business was taken

- any information you have on whether an effort was made to appoint
an "in-house" employee for Bristol City Council to the post. Eg.
job ads, interview process etc.

- the reasons why the post was handed to a third party business
rather than left in-house

- the job title, grade and pay scale of any other HR employees at
Bristol City Council employed by this third party business

- the job title, grade and pay scale of any other HR employees at
Bristol City Council employed by any third party business

- the name of the above third party business(es)

Yours faithfully,

Bill Wren

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