Tender for Temporary Staff Recruitment Services

Higher Education Authority

Invitation to tender for participation in a Framework for the provision of Temporary Staff Recruitment Services.

Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2022-01-12. The procurement was published on 2021-12-08.

Suppliers
The following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:
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Procurement history
Date Document
2021-12-08 Contract notice
2022-01-12 Additional information
2022-05-18 Contract award notice
Contract notice (2021-12-08)
Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: Higher Education Authority
National registration number: 0085228K
Postal address: 3 Shelbourne Buildings, Shelbourne Road
Postal town: Dublin 4
Postal code: D04 C2Y6
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 12317100 📞
E-mail: procurement@hea.ie 📧
Region: Dublin 🏙️
URL: http://www.hea.ie 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/1176 🌏
Communication
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=203636&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Participation URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=203636&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Tender for Temporary Staff Recruitment Services
Products/services: Recruitment services 📦
Short description:
“Invitation to tender for participation in a Framework for the provision of Temporary Staff Recruitment Services.”
Estimated value excluding VAT: EUR 900 000 💰

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Additional products/services: Supply services of personnel including temporary staff 📦
Place of performance: Dublin 🏙️
Place of performance: Éire/Ireland 🏙️
Main site or place of performance: Dublin 4
Description of the procurement:
“Invitation to tender for participation in a Framework for the provision of Temporary Staff Recruitment Services.”
Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
Scope of the procurement
Estimated total value excluding VAT: EUR 900 000 💰
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Description
Duration: 12
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
This contract is subject to renewal
Description
Description of renewals:
“One year contract with option to extend the Term for a period or periods of up to 12 months with a maximum of 3 such extensions. Maximum term is 4 years in total.”    Show more

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
List and brief description of conditions:
“As stated in procurement documents available to download from www.etenders.gov.ie using RFT ID 204273.”
Economic and financial standing
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Technical and professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents

Procedure
Type of procedure
Open procedure
Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
Framework agreement with several operators
Description
Envisaged maximum number of participants to the framework agreement: 2
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2022-01-12 12:00 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: 12
Conditions for opening of tenders: 2022-01-12 12:00 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders (place):
“Electronic opening of Tender Box on etenders by two persons on the Assigned Team”
Conditions for opening of tenders (Information about authorised persons and opening procedure):
“Electronic opening of Tender Box on etenders by two persons on the Assigned Team”

Complementary information
Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement
Estimated timing for further notices to be published:
“In one to four years time depending on if options to extend are exercised or not.”
Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Electronic payment will be used
Additional information

“Interested parties must register their interest on the eTenders web site (www.etenders.gov.ie) in order to be included on the mailing list for...”    Show more
Review body
Name: High Court
Postal address: Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Source: OJS 2021/S 241-635510 (2021-12-08)
Additional information (2022-01-12)

Complementary information
Original notice reference
Notice number in the OJ S: 2021/S 241-635510

Changes
Text to be corrected in the original notice
Section number: IV.2.2
Place of text to be modified: Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Old value
Date: 2022-01-12 📅
Time: 12:00
New value
Date: 2022-01-17 📅
Time: 12:00
Source: OJS 2022/S 011-024913 (2022-01-12)
Contract award notice (2022-05-18)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Tender for Temporary Staff Recruitment Services HEA Temp Staff
Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT): EUR 900 000 💰
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name):
“Experience of key staff who will be involved in the sourcing and delivery of Temporary Agency candidates”
Quality criterion (weighting): 20%
Quality criterion (name):
“Quality of tenderers approach to sourcing, screening and delivery of Temporary Agency candidates”
Quality criterion (name):
“Quality of tenderers approach to account management of the service delivery to the HEA”
Cost criterion (name): Agency Margin
Cost criterion (weighting): 40%
Information about options
Options
Description of options:
“The term of framework agreement is one year with an option to extend the term for a period or periods of up to 12 months with a maximum of three such extensions.”    Show more

Procedure
Information about framework agreement
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
Administrative information
Previous publication concerning this procedure: 2021/S 241-635510

Award of contract

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Contract Number: 1
Title: Temporary Staff Recruitment Services
Date of conclusion of the contract: 2022-04-22 📅
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 8
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 6
Number of tenders received from tenderers from other EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 8
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators
Name and address of the contractor
Name: Attentius Associates T/A Osborne Recruitment
National registration number: 470369
Postal address: 13 Fitzwilliam Square East
Postal town: Dublin 2
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Region: Ireland 🏙️
The contractor is an SME
Name: Hartley People Ltd T/A Hartley People Recruitment
National registration number: 339178
Postal address: Unit 1B, Cleaboy Business Park, Old Kilmeaden Roa
Postal town: Waterford
Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Estimated total value of the contract/lot: EUR 900 000 💰
Total value of the contract/lot: EUR 900 000 💰

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Contract Number: 1 - second highest ranked tenderer
Name and address of the contractor
Postal address: Unit 1B, Cleaboy Business Park, Old Kilmeaden Road
Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Estimated total value of the contract/lot: EUR 900 000 💰
Total value of the contract/lot: EUR 900 000 💰

Complementary information
Additional information

“The contract value stated in this notice is the HEA's best estimate of the value of the framework and should not be taken as a definitive indication or...”    Show more
Source: OJS 2022/S 099-274940 (2022-05-18)