Recruitment agencies used by Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS): FOI release

Information requested

1. List of recruitment agencies currently being used for the supply of agency staff.

2. Breakdown of current spend per agency (2019-2021).

3. What framework/DPS this spend is going through.

Response

Please see below answers to points 1 and 2 in the table below:

Agency	Jan 19 – Dec 19	Jan 20 – Dec 20	Jan 21	Total
ASA Recruitment	£10,432.80	£65,838.60	£35,439.60	£111,711
Blue Arrow Limited	£14,621.32	-	-	£14,621.32
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Ltd	£389,592	£336,069	£3,672	£729,333
Lorien Resourcing Ltd	£46,787.05	£186,908.63	£12,562.80	£246,258.48
Parity Professional Ltd	£817,232.94	£458,333.14	£14,882.40	£1,290,448.48
Pertemps Group of Companies	£259,746.08	£65,367.26	£4,309.82	£329,423.16
Spring Technology Staffing Services Ltd	£325,001.60	£22,675.20	-	£347,676.80
Venesky-Brown Recruitment Ltd	£92,642.40	£317,872.80	£20,779.20	£431,294.40
Total	£1,956,056.19	£1,453,064.63	£91,645.82	£3,500,766.64

And the frameworks used by the agency with hyperlinks to each framework on the public contracts Scotland website are:

Framework for Temporary Administrative, Catering & Manual Staff Services (North)
Framework for Temporary Administrative, Catering & Manual Staff Services (South)
Framework Agreement for Interim Professional Staff Services (National)
Framework Agreement for Interim IT Staff Services (National)

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