Pay/Bill Recruitment Middleware Solution

Commercial Services is one of the largest trading organisations of its kind in Europe with a turnover in excess of £600 million and employing over 700 people from its base in Kent. Tracing its roots back to 1902, as an education stores department for Kent County Council, Commercial Services has subsequently grown organically to supply an ever-increasing range of best value goods and services to other publicly funded organisations. These include local government, education establishments, the care sector and the emergency services. Connect2Kent is a trading unit of Commercial Services specialising in recruitment, and provides temporary and permanent staff to local government and associated public bodies across the UK. Our shareholder and largest customer is Kent County Council. Connect2Kent currently has 750 candidates and 35 recruitment consultants split, between two trading divisions, Connect2Kent and Connect2Staff. It is predicted that revenue will grow 15% p.a. over the next four years, to £70m by 2019/20. We are upgrading our middleware and back office systems to integrate with BOND, our front office CRM software, and CODA, our ledger system, to automate our processes, improve reporting and controls, and ensuring scalability and future proofing our systems as much as possible. In accordance with best procurement practice, EU and UK Procurement Directives and Regulations, KCS wishes to create a Contract for the supply and delivery of a Pay/ Bill Middleware Solution.

Additional information: Instructions to Suppliers: This opportunity will be completed electronically via ProContract, a site run by Due North. Interested organisations should go to

www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk to register and express interest. To express interest select ‘Current Opportunities’, from the ‘Organisation’ drop down box select ‘Commercial Services’, click search and select the appropriate opportunity. Once you have successfully expressed interest via the portal you will be sent an email directing you to the ProContract site from which you will be able to access and download the invitation to tender documentation and any other relevant information. This email should be retained, as it will contain your direct link to the ProContract portal, for information purposes only the link is www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/procontract/supplier.nsf DO NOT USE THIS LINK NOW.

Tenderers should also note that final submissions must be made via ProContract, no other submission route is permitted. Failure to follow this path will result in the tender submission being disregarded.

ALL DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THIS OPPORTUNITY WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD VIA

THE PROCONTRACT PORTAL FROM THE OUTSET. Please ensure you are able to download all files immediately after accessing the ProContract portal.