Tender: Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water Hybrid MSP Recruitment Framework for Temporary, Interim, Fixed‑Term and Permanent Staffing

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Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water is seeking suppliers to establish a Hybrid Managed Service Provider (MSP) Recruitment Framework to support its in-house recruitment function with temporary, interim, fixed-term contract (FTC) and permanent recruitment services across a range of specialist disciplines. The Framework will retain DCC's in-house recruitment and governance while appointing MSP Suppliers to seven Lots (with up to three suppliers per Lot) based on specialist recruitment capability; MSP Suppliers will be responsible, as applicable, for candidate attraction, sourcing, screening and presentation, onboarding and pre-employment compliance, operational management of IR35 and other tax/employment compliance, payroll and bill-pay administration, workforce administration, and provision of management information and expenditure reporting, while DCC retains recruitment strategy, final appointment decisions and supplier performance monitoring. Permanent and FTC roles will ordinarily be managed in-house first and only released to suppliers when internal routes are exhausted or roles are specialist, difficult to fill or time-critical, while temporary and interim requirements may be released to suppliers according to the role’s specialist needs. Commercial arrangements including recruitment fees, agency mark-ups and MSP management charges will be defined at the ITT stage.