Decision details

The Cabinet will be asked to consider proposals to extend the current contract for the provision of agency staff services to the end of the financial year and embark on a procurement exercise to procure a new contract from the beginning of the next financial year

The Cabinet Member for Finance, Revenues and Benefits presented a report on the proposals for the retendering of the contract for the provision of temporary agency staff, the current contract for which expired on 30 September 2011.

The Cabinet Member explained that an options appraisal had identified a ‘master vendor’ solution in collaboration with up to eighteen other London Boroughs/ALMOs using the national procurement framework MSTAR as the preferred solution, and he outlined the main differences with the ‘neutral vendor’ approach that applied to the Council’s current service.

Cabinet agreed:-

  (i)  The extension of the existing Matrix contract for a period of six months from 1 October 2011;

  (ii)  To the Council participating in the MSTAR framework for the procurement of a contract for the provision of temporary agency staff; and

 (iii)  To authorise the Corporate Director of Finance and Resources, in consultation with the Divisional Director of Legal and Democratic Services, to award contracts for the provision of temporary agency staff using the MSTAR framework.