BR-023-2020 Provision of Tests and Assessment Exercises for Recruitment Competitions for Northern Ireland Assembly

The Northern Ireland Assembly Commission (NIAC) is seeking to appoint a supplier who can conduct online psychometric tests and assessments to support the recruitment and selection of permanent staff.

This may include but not be limited to, verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning and situational judgement tests and assessments, which include written or oral exercises, in-tray exercises and presentations.

The Assembly Commission is not seeking to have bespoke tests and assessments designed and offered, but is content with making best use of the successful supplier’s existing assessments and tests.

These assessments and tests must be equality assessed to ensure they do not have any adverse impact on one group over another.

The successful supplier will also be required to offer professional advice and expertise in relation to the suitability of tests for recruitment competitions.

There may be occasions when the individual business areas wish to design their own tests when relevant tests may not be available in the market. In such circumstances, the Assembly Commission requires the supplier to review these, undertake an equality impact assessment on the Assembly developed test to ensure there is no adverse impact on the grounds of community background, gender, age or disability and provide advice in regard to cut-off scores.

The successful supplier will provide the Assembly Commission with online psychometric testing and assessment exercises as part of the recruitment process. This will enable the elements of the Recruitment and Selection Framework to be assessed as part of the recruitment process.

The contract is expected to be in place for a period of 2 years (with a potential extension of up to one year). 

The contract will be accessible via eTendersNI -  https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps/home.do

You will only see the opportunity if you are registered on eTendersNI.    Should you be interested in the above opportunity, please register on eTenderNI - https://www.dfpni.gov.uk/articles/register-supplier-etendersni

If you have any issues please contact the Procurement Office at procurement@niassembly.gov.uk or by telephone 028 9052 1526.

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