Materiel Strategy - Managed Service Provider - Work Package 3 - HR

Background

The UK MOD's Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) organisation has a requirement to appoint a Managed Service Provider (MSP) to build upon, and embed its Human Resources (HR) management capability and to support cultural change within the DE&S workforce.

This requirement is part of the DE&S's wider Materiel Strategy change programme. Under the change programme, the DE&S organisation has been established as a Bespoke Central Government Trading Entity within the public sector from 1 April 2014, with new management freedoms and controls that are appropriate to its challenges and the specialist nature of its business.

Requirement

The MSP will be a key provider of the services/requirements driving the Materiel Strategy change programme. Potential MSPs should note that the DE&S is planning to appoint other MSPs for two further Work Packages – Work Package (WP) 1, Project Delivery to transform and improve the operation of its project delivery capability and Work Package (WP) 2, Finance/Management Information/Information Technology (Fin/MI/IT) to transform and improve the operation of its financial and information management capability.

Within the boundaries of the freedoms and controls given to DE&S as a Trading Entity and working with the MSPs of WPs 1 and 2 as necessary, it is considered that the requirements for the HR MSP are broadly split into 3 categories:

• a)those associated with the design, establishment and embedding of a dedicated new Corporate HR Function within the boundaries of the freedoms and controls given;
• b)those associated with the development, implementation and embedding of the employment policy and process framework; and
• c)those associated with the DE&S workforce, including designing a HR strategy featuring a new workforce model to enable effective deployment of staff, building capability, and the delivery and embedding of a changed culture within the organisation.