Contract Summary

Two-tier contract for Executive Recruitment Consulting Services. Executive recruitment is a service used to identify and recruit qualified candidates for executive management or other highly specialized positions in organizations.

Executive recruitment professionals may be involved throughout the hiring process including, but not limited to, developing recruitment announcements, resume review, selection of pre-qualified candidates, establishing interview questionnaires, participating in interviews, review of candidate interviews, performing reference and background checks, and final selection for employment and any other services requires to complete a recruitment project.

Where applicable, Vendor may be asked to work with Customer’s human resource staff to set salaries within the position’s pre-approved (by State Human Resources, Office of Financial Management) salary bands.

Service Requirements
Vendors may be asked to perform some, or all, of the services described below:
Specifications
• Initial Consultations
• Agency Familiarization
• Selection From Pre-Qualified Candidates (if applicable)
• Advertising/Marketing
• Candidate Selection
• Interview Preparation
• Interview Participation
• Post-Interview Assessment
• Employment Offer
Progress Reports
Metrics Tracking
• Number & Duration of Recruitment efforts
• Type & degree of efforts to locate candidates
• Number of total applicants
• Number of applicants interviewed
• Quality of candidates
• Number of job offers made
• Types of incentives offered by employing organization
• Time to hire

Additional details on these services can be found in the Solicitation Documents and each Vendor's contract & amendments page.

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***What are 2-Tier Contracts?***
DES manages multiple 2-Tier Contracts for non-IT professional services. These non-IT 2-Tier Contracts work like this:
• Tier 1: General (wide) category scope procurement is posted and completed by Enterprise Services to Pre-Qualify Bidders with in a category (example Facilitators & Facilitation Services, Organizational Development)
• Tier 2: Detailed (specific) scope project procurement posted and completed by the Purchaser to award work to one (1) or more Pre-Qualified Bidders/Contractors as established in Tier 1.

***2nd Tier Process***
When it comes to the Tier 2 process, purchasers have 2 options, depending on the size of the project. It is important to follow the process outlined below to ensure that competition is happening as required by RCW 39.26.

Option 1: Rapid Selection – For small projects under $30,000 (excluding sales tax) or $40,000 (excluding sales tax) if the purchase is being made from a microbusiness, minibusiness or small business as defined by RCW 39.26.010, Purchasers can complete a Rapid Selection Award (no competition required). You can also find more information by reviewing Policy # DES-125-03.
Option 2: Tier 2 Solicitation– For larger projects (over the $30k & $40k ceilings explained in Option 1) purchasers must complete a Tier 2 Solicitation. Details on the 2nd Tier solicitation can be found in the Tier 2 Handbook (under the "Resources" drop-down list below).

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