The Cabinet Office is seeking to partner with “innovative companies” interested in delivering a long-term contract to deliver the latest version of the digital platform used to promote all government roles.
The Cabinet Office has lifted the lid on plans to create a new multi-million pound Government Employment Platform in the hope of helping government agencies tackle their “biggest recruitment challenges”.
The Central Office has published a commercial notice outlining its intentions to replace the long-running civil service recruitment online platform. Currently, all government jobs are posted through this platform and 70% of the posts are filled.
Work to implement the new digital system will be led by the Government People’s Group (GPG). The GPG is based in the Cabinet Office and oversees civil service jobs and careers, as well as shared services, training and pensions.
According to the commercial notice, GPG intends for the new jobs site to “align with and deliver on key cross-government strategies, including the Government Reform Manifesto and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2022-25”. That’s what it means.
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He added: “With the next generation of civil service recruitment, we are addressing some of the biggest recruiting challenges: reducing time to hire, standardizing much of the hiring process, and providing users with a more intuitive user experience. This is a great opportunity for innovative companies to bid for the opportunity to work with us to help achieve these goals.”
The plan is to appoint a supplier to work with the government to provide and support the online tools, with a seven-year contract expected to start next summer. The contract is expected to be worth £17 million to the selected provider.
The Cabinet Office has not yet begun a formal procurement process, but will initially seek to engage with potential suppliers through a virtual event on August 22nd from 1pm, with the department calling for “our requirements and procurement “We will present a high-level overview of the plan.” “Procurement”. Companies wishing to register up to three representatives to participate in this event must register by 5:00 pm on August 17th.
“While this is not yet the official start of our procurement, we are looking to meet with as many suppliers as possible so that we can explain our service needs and encourage consideration of bids,” the contract notice states. Masu.
Procurement records show that civil service recruitment and the applicant tracking system technology that underpins it is currently supported by digital recruitment specialist Oreo, which signed a four-year 1090 agreement with the Cabinet Office in May 2021. Signed a £10,000 contract.
A total of 211 individual government agencies are using the existing platform to advertise jobs, with approximately 2,000 job openings currently listed on the site.
In parallel with the creation of a new recruitment platform for those joining the civil service, public technology Earlier this year, we exclusively revealed that the government also embarked on the development of a new multi-million pound digital system to simplify and standardize processes for the approximately 30,000 staff who move between departments each year. revealed. Project leaders estimate that the new system will not only save hundreds of thousands of working days a year, but also prevent about 7,000 payroll errors.
