Recruitment Services for the Army

Contracts

• RECRUITING PARTNERING PROJECT (RPP) · Capita Business Services Ltd, Capita Business Services Ltd MoD Recruiting Partnering Project 71 Victoria Street London SW1H 0XA For the attention of Tony Page, RPP Managing Director

  Signed

  15 Jun 2023

  Value

  £1,087,223,271

  Period

  12 Mar 2012 – 31 Mar 2026

  Status

  active

  • Change In 2012, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) engaged Capita Business Services Limited as an industry partner under a 10-year contractual arrangement to support its Army recruiting services from point of receipt of initial recruiting targets to the securing of an individual's commitment to the Army, up to the point where that individual commenced their initial military training; and, in so doing, optimise the mix of military and industry expertise delivering such services. MOD was keen to embrace the opportunities that leading edge technology and industry's expertise was able to bring to Army recruiting throughout the life of a contractual arrangement, and thus the contractual arrangement included the development and periodic technological refresh of a bespoke ICT system to underpin the Army recruitment processes. The initial contractual arrangement between MOD and Capita Business Services Ltd ran from 16th March 2012 to 31st March 2022, with an original advertised contract value of £500m.It was then subsequently extended by two further years, to 31st March 2024, through the exercising of existing extension options available under the original contractual arrangement. It is the Ministry of Defence's intention to now modify Contract HQLF2/1739, the existing RPP contractual arrangement with Capita Business Services Ltd, in accordance with Regulation 72 (1)(b) of PCR 2015. This modification will take the form of a non-competitive extension to the existing Contract with the current contractor, for a further period of up to 1 year from 1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025. The nature and extent of the services to be provided by Capita Business Services Ltd during this period of further extension will be unchanged from those provided by the Contractor during the previous contract period from 16th March 2012 to 31st March 2024., Need for modification brought about by circumstances which a diligent contracting authority/entity could not foresee: 6. Description of the circumstances which have rendered necessary the modification. A separate competitive procurement programme is currently in train under the provisions of PCR 2015 to deliver a new recruiting contract which covers not just Army recruitment but recruitment to all 3 arms of the UK Armed Services. This separate programme is known as the “Armed Forces Recruitment Programme” (“AFRP”), and will ultimately replace the current RPP Contractual arrangement. However, due to unforeseen programme delays, the anticipated start date for the AFRP contract has now slipped to 1st April 2025, leaving a 1-year gap between scheduled expiry of the RPP contract in March 2024 and the projected commencement of the AFRP recruiting contract. There is consequently a need to ensure that the Army’s existing recruiting contract service continues to operate until such time as the AFRP Contract has been awarded under competitive tender process, and AFRP service delivery is able to commence.

Dispute resolution & review bodies

• RPP Army CommercialReview body Uapvon