{"id":711,"date":"2012-05-18T11:40:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T11:40:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-05-18T11:40:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T11:40:54","slug":"barnet-unison-evaluation-of-the-bidders-ec-harris-and-capita-symonds-for-drs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/2012\/05\/18\/barnet-unison-evaluation-of-the-bidders-ec-harris-and-capita-symonds-for-drs\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnet UNISON Evaluation of the Bidders ( EC Harris and Capita Symonds) for DRS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Councillors \u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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You may be aware that recently staff working across Regulatory Services had the opportunity to meet the two contractors bidding to win the DRS contract to deliver services such as Planning, Environmental Services to name but a few and of course to take over running of Hendon Crematorium & Cemetery.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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UNISON welcomed the opportunity for staff to meet the bidders and I would like to commend the senior officers for enabling this to take place. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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UNISON felt it was important to capture the feedback from our members as to what they had learnt from the presentation. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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UNISON carried out a simple survey of our members attending both presentations and we now have the results which I promised my members I would share with all 63 councillors. <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Below are four key issues emerging from the presentation<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Only 27%<\/span><\/b> of members expressed confidence that EC Harris can effectively<\/span> <\/b>deliver their service, as compared with only 3%<\/span><\/b> for Capita <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Only 19%<\/b> of members were confident EC Harris would not make staff redundant after TUPE transfer as compared with only 12%<\/b> for Capita Symonds<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>Only 24%<\/b> of members believed EC Harris would protect flexi time, flexible working, membership of the pension scheme and terms & conditions as compared with 9%<\/b> for Capita Symonds <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The majority of our members want<\/span><\/b> to meet the Bidders before<\/span><\/b> <\/span>the preferred Bidder is selected<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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I hope that you will all have time to read and consider our presentation\u00a0(click here <\/a>) and support our request<\/b> that further meeting with both<\/b> Bidders be arranged for staff before <\/span><\/b>the preferred bidder is selected. <\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Best wishes<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

John Burgess<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Branch Secretary.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

Barnet UNISON <\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Councillors \u00a0 \u00a0 You may be aware that recently staff working across Regulatory Services had the opportunity to meet the two contractors bidding to win the DRS contract to deliver services such as Planning, Environmental Services to name but a few and of course to take over running of Hendon Crematorium & Cemetery. \u00a0 UNISON welcomed the opportunity for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}