Sopra Steria Recruitment (SSR) has announced that it has been appointed by Crown Commercial Service to assist the Crown with driving savings for the taxpayer, and improving the quality of commercial and procurement activity.

SSR will also act as a supplier of IT professionals to the Non-Medical Non-Clinical Temporary and Fixed Term Staff Framework agreement. This framework will be used by NHS bodies and wider government organisations to procure contingent workers.

Pete Holliday, managing director at SSR, said: “Securing a place across this framework is a great achievement for SSR. Through this agreement we are proud to be supporting the government’s policy to centrally manage the procurement of common goods and services through an integrated commercial function at the heart of the government.

“We have the experience of already having made placements under the previous framework for IT-contingent labour, and will be accelerating this as demand grows in 2015 and beyond; helping government reduce the cost of resources whilst ensuring a flexible workforce continues to enable the NHS. This win helps cement the SSR aspiration of growing as leaders in recruitment transformation.”

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