Category: 91Èȱ¬
Date: 18.11.2005
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The procurement process reaches final round
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The 91Èȱ¬ announced today a shortlist of bidders selected to the final round in the procurement process for the partial outsourcing of HR Services for the Corporation.
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The three companies that have made the third stage of the bidding process are, in alphabetical order:
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Accenture, Capita and Xchanging.
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The bids received from the long listed bidders were of high quality and through a rigorous EU procurement process conducted by the 91Èȱ¬'s evaluation team.
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The three finalists were chosen because of their strategic and service delivery capability.
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Stephen Dando, Director, 91Èȱ¬ People, said: "We have been impressed by the quality of the bids and all three bidders deserve to have reached the shortlist stage.
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"We look forward to working with them more closely over the next few months and, as our timetable to complete the process is on track, we envisage announcing the winning bidder early in the New Year."
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The areas which the 91Èȱ¬ is looking for a supplier to undertake are recruitment, remuneration, development, HR administration services, relocation, occupational health services and disability access services.
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The preference is to award one contract for all of the services, however the 91Èȱ¬ will award more than one contract where it is deemed commercially advantageous to do so, or where this is necessary to achieve the required service standards.
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Final negotiations are expected to take place at the end of this year and the contract with the successful supplier is due to become operational from spring 2006.
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The procurement process follows an internal review which proposed that a number of services should be outsourced.
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The review team identified this as one of the measures to help put extra resources into programmes as part of the 91Èȱ¬'s radical plans to transform the organisation into a simpler and more creative digital broadcaster.
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Hewitt Associates declined to respond to the Request for Proposal on the grounds that our outsourcing proposal does not fit with Hewitt Associates' outsourcing approach.
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91Èȱ¬ staff and unions are being kept fully informed during the process.
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Notes to Editors
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91Èȱ¬ People was formed in 2001, bringing together for the first time the vast majority of the 91Èȱ¬'s functional HR specialists.
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The division supports the whole employment process. It supports 91Èȱ¬ staff, casuals and some freelances based within multiple UK locations and internationally, and deals with the significant 'churn' associated with new hires/leavers.
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Details of the 91Èȱ¬ HR services for procurement:
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Recruitment: full recruitment process including attracting and selecting candidates, offers, recruitment marketing (including events and work experience) and contract administration.
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Remuneration: including pay administration and transaction, benefits administration (excluding pensions), pay and benefits enquiry management.
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Development: specifically, 360 degree assessment and feedback, outplacement, training and development for broadcast engineering skills, technical services support.
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HR administration services: HR process administration, provision of HR information, guidance on HR processes and routing of other enquiries.
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Relocation: management of relocation assignments.
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Occupational health services: for example, sickness and absence management, risk management, case management, ergonomics advice, physiotherapy, employee assistance programmes, health education and overseas travel.
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Disability access services: provision of assessments and facilitation and other access support to disabled staff.
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OJEU is the Official Journal of the European Union (formally known as OJEC). All public sector contracts above a certain threshold must be published in the OJEU.
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