External Recruitment Services
As part of the New Zealand Government Procurement Reform Programme a Recruitment Centre of Expertise (CoE) has been established at the Ministry of Economic Development to implement All-of-Government contract for External Recruitment Services.
By harnessing the collective buying power of over 200 State Sector agencies, Local Authorities and over 2,400 schools, the NZ government has positioned itself as a ‘customer of choice’ and is looking to achieve substantial cost savings in this area.
An All-of-Government Request for Proposal (RFP) for External Recruitment Services has been released on GETS (16 April 2012).
The objective of the RFP is appoint a panel of AoG providers to supply ‘primary’ recruitment services for roles within in three job families (i.e. Common Admin, Common Corporate and Common IT) on a permanent (or fixed term), temporary or contractor basis.
The Centre of Expertise invites proposals from suppliers with a physical presence in any of the three key regions being Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch.
Timeframes (last updated 17 April 2012)
RFP released on GETS www.gets.govt.nz 16 April.
Last day for Notification of Intention to Respond and Registration of Referees is Monday 30 April.
Proposals must be submitted (vie e-tender tool) by 5pm on Monday 14 May.
Information for suppliers
- April 2012 AoG Recruitment Pre-Tender Supplier Briefing Presentation [385 kB PDF]
- April 2012 AoG Recruitment Pre-Tender Supplier Briefing Questions & Answers [65 kB PDF]
- Invitation to pre-tender briefing [55 kB PDF] - Tuesday 3 April, Wellington
- February 2012 Project update [123 kB PDF]
- November 2011 Supplier stocktake request for GETS [303 kB PDF]
- November 2011 Overview of supplier stocktake [530 kB PDF]
- October 2011 Supplier update [345 kB PDF]
- October 2011 Frequently asked questions [307 kB PDF]
- October 2011 Supplier stocktake advertisment [226 kB PDF]
- August 2011 Request for information [785 kB PDF]
Information for government agencies
YouTube updates
To keep you up to date we have posted a number of videos on the Ministry of Economic Development YouTube channel. You can also access the recruitment YouTube clips below.
- April 2012 Part One
- April 2012 Part Two
- April 2012 Part Three
- February 2012
- October 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
Contact us
- Email AoGRecruitment@med.govt.nz
- Mark Ansell +64 4 474 2679
- Tom O'Sullivan +64 4 474 2931
- Sandra Young +64 4 474 2937
- Twitter: nzprocurement
