Bournemouth Borough Council is to adopt a technology platform to manage the recruitment of its temporary staff in the hope of reducing recruitment spend by 4% or 212,000.

The council is working with Comensura to implement the scheme from 1 April, which will automate key recruitment functions and rank recruitment agencies against criteria such as cost, responsiveness and calibre of candidates to create a competitive supplier list.

The procurement and HR teams at Bournemouth Borough Council made the decision following an internal survey of the organisation's recruitment processes. The new scheme will not only cut cost for the firm, but also management time.

Brett Holtom (pictured), strategic procurement manager at the council, said: "The system provides us with one point of contact and the online ordering and timesheet system will significantly reduce the administration time our managers previously had to invest in recruiting temporary agency staff themselves. It will also assist the council to pay suppliers' invoices promptly."