Professional Services

Tools and Resources

Consultancy Value Programme - Templates and Guidance

• CVP overview factsheet (PDF, 121KB) 
• Business Case template (PDF, 364KB)
• Business Case guidance notes (PDF, 1.4MB)
• Business Case summary factsheet (PDF, 239KB)
• Consultancy Performance Review template (Excel, 127KB)
• Guide to Consultancy Pricing (PDF, 297KB)

Temporary Agency Workers - Tools and Guidance

• What Good Looks Like - a guide to agency managed services for local authorities (PDF, 1MB)
• What Good Looks Like - a guide to agency managed services for Members (PDF, 621KB)
• 9 Steps to Demand Management - available on request from the OGC Service Desk.

Practical Examples

A series of examples of Managed Service models in use in local government are available on request from tempstaff@ogc.gsi.gov.uk. These examples are from Walsall MBC, London Borough of Islington, Cambridgeshire County Council and AGMA.

Newsletters

Our Temporary Staff Times newsletter provides topical updates on legislative changes, good practice and the work of the professional services team.

• September 2009 (PDF, 203KB)
• March 2009 (PDF, 192KB)
• September 2008 (PDF, 210KB)
• March 2008 (PDF, 116KB)
• August 2007 - Second issue of the Temporary Staff Newsletter (PDF, 170KB)
• April 2007 - First issue of the Temporary Staff Newsletter (PDF, 107KB)

To receive the latest copy of Temporary Staff Times, contact the OGC Service desk.

Professional Services Collaborative Category Board (PSCCB)
Request for approval to progress collaborative procurement (MS Word, 43KB)

Additional Publications

The best practice guide on Transforming the Procurement of Temporary, Agency and Interim Staff: Your Toolkit for Success, produced by the London Borough of Havering and Capital Ambition provides valuable and comprehensive insight and is recommended by OGC.

Getteing Better Value from Professional Services Procurement - a guide to the professional services category and the work of the team.