Pay/Bill Recruitment Middleware Solution

Commercial Services is one of the largest trading organisations of its kind in Europe with a turnover in excess of £600 million and employing over 700 people from its base in Kent.

Tracing its roots back to 1902, as an education stores department for Kent County Council, Commercial Services has subsequently grown organically to supply an ever-increasing range of best value goods and services to other publicly funded organisations.

These include local government, education establishments, the care sector and the emergency services.

Connect2Kent is a trading unit of Commercial Services specialising in recruitment, and provides temporary and permanent staff to local government and associated public bodies across the UK.

Our shareholder and largest customer is Kent County Council.

Connect2Kent currently has 750 candidates and 35 recruitment consultants split, between two trading divisions, Connect2Kent and Connect2Staff.

It is predicted that revenue will grow 15% p.a. over the next four years, to £70m by 2019/20.

We are upgrading our middleware and back office systems to integrate with BOND, our front office CRM software, and CODA, our ledger system, to automate our processes, improve reporting and controls, and ensuring scalability and future proofing our systems as much as possible.

In accordance with best procurement practice, EU and UK Procurement Directives and Regulations, KCS wishes to create a Contract for the supply and delivery of a Pay/ Bill Middleware Solution.