Finite snares $400+m government contract

Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 05 May 2009 13:20

IT People - Recruitment

A consortium headed up by Finite IT has won a major contract worth more than $400 million to provide recruitment services to the New South Wales Government.

Finite partnered with Kelly Services and Conduit Recruitment to win the tender for the government’s C100 contract which includes eight of the nine job categories available. The contract with Finite and its partner recruiters replaces three previous contracts for provision of contractors and temporary workers to the NSW Government.
 
Finite’s managing director, Tracy Thomson, said only one other agency scored as highly as Finite in the tender process, and the government’s agency panel had now been reduced to only 18 primary recruitment agencies, with Finite IT and its two sub partners appointed to service eight of the nine job categories.

Thomson says the contract includes all three IT categories, which Finite would service as one of only four agencies to win all three categories.

According to Thomson, the new contract came into place on 20 April and contractors working for any agency that has not been appointed to the new panel have 90 days to transition over to a new approved supplier.

Thomson said that the new arrangements would offer a dynamic new streamlined recruitment service to government “with a much simpler hiring process and greater certainty of a quality outcome for all concerned.”

“ Working closely with our two key recruitment partners, this opens a new chapter in the way we conduct business and has already identified a number of innovative new ideas that we are adopting as a team to service this exciting new opportunity.”