Managed service and master vend arrangement - Find a freedom of information request

1. Do you have a Managed Service / Master Vend arrangement?

2. If so, which organisation has the contract?

3. Who is the contract manager?

4. When does it come to an end?

5. Do you have any off contact spend?

6. If yes, which agencies are you utilising off contract?

7. Which categories of workers are you booking via off contract agencies?

8. What was your spend on agency suppliers over the following financial years:

a) 2024  

b) 2023

Please split the data into spend on permanent staff introduced via agency suppliers and temporary spend on agency workers.

9. Please advise which categories the spend took place in - i.e. Social Workers, support workers, admin, Care, Senior Management and Interim roles, Finance, Education, Housing, Planning and Legal. Please separate into contract and off contract.

10. Please confirm the top 5 agencies with highest spend for:  

a) Temporary staff

b) Permanent staff / Introduction fees charged

11. Please list top 5 agencies being used for off contract bookings.

1. Yes.

2. Matrix.

3. Helen Hempstock.

4. 25 January 2026.

5. Yes.

6. For Financial year 2024/2025:

• Nonstop Consulting Ltd
• Castlefield Recruitment Ltd
• Mr N D Wale
• Reed Specialist Recruitment Ltd
• SThree Partnership LLP t/a Computer Futures
• Tile Hill Interim & Executive Ltd
• Precision Resource Grp Ltd t/a Panoramic Assocs
• G2V Recruitment Group Ltd t/a Vivid Resourcing
• INFOJAM Limited
• Lincolnshire ICB
• Liquid Personnel Ltd
• WSP UK Ltd
• Teaching Personnel Ltd
• Root2 Recruitment Ltd
• Simply Education Ltd
• Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
• Permanent Futures Ltd
• Baltimore Consulting Ltd
• Jessamy Staffing Solutions Ltd t/a Jessamy Platinum Homecare
• Vision For Education Ltd
• Just Teachers Ltd
• Amy Briggs
• Linq Healthcare Recruitment Specialists Limited
• DMR Services Limited
• Taylor Family Services Ltd
• Now Education Group Ltd
• Tulip Academy Spalding (Waterside Campus)
• IFS Lincolnshire Ltd
• Psychological Insights Ltd
• Annicare North Ltd
• Land Network (North East Lincolnshire) Ltd

7. Unknown.

8.

a. £6million on-contract, £1.4million off-contract.

b. £6.3million on-contract, £1.7million off-contract.

9. Admin and Clerical, Children's Services, Education - Primary and Secondary, Facilities and Environmental Services, Financial, Interims - Commercial (Finance, Procurement, Legal), Interims - IT, Digital, Media and Marketing, IT, Legal, Manual Labour / General Industrial, Planning, Procurement, Social Care and Health Non-Qualified, Social Care (Qualified).

10.

a. Due to our master vendor approach Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) is not beholden to which agencies are supplied to by the master vendor and therefore unable to answer this questions directly.

b. Not applicable.

11.

• Nonstop Consulting Ltd
• Castlefield Recruitment Ltd
• Mr N D Wale
• Reed Specialist Recruitment Ltd
• SThree Partnership LLP t/a Computer Futures