Temporary Administrative and Secretarial Staff Services Select List

Summary

The requester asked for details regarding a specific agency added to the Temporary Administrative and Secretarial Staff Services Select List after the submission date. The Cabinet Office disclosed that the agency was added on 30 November 2021 because it was inadvertently missed from the tendering exercise, a decision sanctioned by the Office of Human Resources.

Key Facts

• A further agency was added to the Select List on 30 November 2021.
• The agency was added because it was inadvertently missed from the tendering exercise.
• The Office of Human Resources within the Cabinet Office sanctioned the addition.
• The authority issued a corrected response on 28 April 2022 to replace an incorrect version sent on 19 April 2022.

Data Disclosed

• 30 November 2021
• 2022-03-31
• 2022-04-19
• 2022-04-28
• 2360658

Original Request

A request for OHR. Please can you confirm what date a further agency was allowed on to the Temporary Administrative and Secretarial Staff Services Select List against the terms of the contract? Also please confirm the reason they were allowed to join after the submission date together with the department/individual that sanctioned this?

Data Tables (1)

Full Response Text

Government Office Douglas Isle of Man IM1 3PN Telephone: (+44) 01624 686244 Website: www.gov.im/co

Our ref: 2360658 28 April 2022

Dear ###

We write further to your request which was received on 31 March 2022 and which states:

"A request for OHR. Please can you confirm what date a further agency was allowed on to the Temporary Administrative and Secretarial Staff Services Select List against the terms of the contract? Also please confirm the reason they were allowed to join after the submission date together with the department/individual that sanctioned this?" We subsequently wrote to you to on 21 April 2022 to apologise that the response issued to you on 19 April 2022 was incorrect. Please find below the corrected final response below which is to replace this.

Our response to your request is as follows: A request for OHR. Please can you confirm what date a further agency was allowed on to the Temporary Administrative and Secretarial Staff Services Select List against the terms of the contract? 30 November 2021. Also please confirm the reason they were allowed to join after the submission date together with the department/individual that sanctioned this?" They were added due to being inadvertently missed from the tendering exercise. The department that sanctioned this was the Office of Human Resources, Cabinet Office. Please quote the reference number 2360658 in any future communications.

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Yours sincerely