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Public sector

Sand Resources is a specialist supplier of IT contract, interim management and permanent staff working extensively with clients throughout the public sector.

We have been awarded national framework agreements with the Government Procurement Service (formerly called Buying Solutions) since 2003 and are certificated to ISO 9001:2008.

Whatever the issues driving your requirements we can provide a solution, whether an individual contractor, interim manager or an entire project team, we work on any duration of contract and deliver permanent staff at any level from Chief Executive to graduate entrant. Additional services encompass managed projects and executive search.

Our market specialisation allows us to provide staff with public sector specific experience and security clearance if required. Sand Resources has the expertise you need.

Recent Case Studies and Testimonials

 
  • The Home Office
  • Defra
  • Bristol City Council
  • HM Revenue and Customs
  • UK Debt Management
  • The Insolvency Service
 

Since 2004, Sand Resources has provided services to the Home Office with a particular focus on Shared Business Services, IND and the UK Borders Agency.

Our Interim Programme Director led the Home Office shared service strategy, reviewing the user programme and recommending a recovery plan. The shared service programme was successfully delivered with an improved OGC gateway review. This included responsibility for creating a public sector wide approach to delivering £4BN worth of savings through the implementation of shared service solutions and the transformation of public services through IT.

We have worked with various directorates within DEFRA since 2007 and in addition to project managing various ICT & Business Change related projects we have also provided business process analysis through shadowing Civil Servants' on site visits to map a range of testing and inspection processes.

In 2008, Sand Resources was awarded a framework to supply Interim Managers to Bristol City Council with a particular focus on the ´Transforming Bristol´ programme. Our programme and project managers are delivering enterprise & organisational design new ways of working and shared services provision.

'An excellent level of customer service and the non-permanent staff provided has an extremely high level of expertise and consistently exceeds our expectations in terms of delivery.' Assistant Head, HM Revenue & Customs

Consultants from Sand Resources were responsible for redesigning and implementing new architecture for the Credit Guarantee Scheme Model to add full automation and dynamic functionality. This highly complex model tracks credit guarantees issued by HM Treasury to various banks/institutions; it includes guarantee liabilities, fees receivable, amortization of liabilities, FX movements, hedges, guarantee valuations etc. A consolidated journal entry is prepared monthly for onward transmission to HM Treasury.

Sand Resources has worked extensively with IS since 2007 and we have provided consultants for a complete cross-section of role profiles: Training Manager, Business Analysts, Technical Design Authorities, Systems Administrator, Software Developers, Security Consultants, Communications Manager, Project Managers, Middleware Architect, Technical Developers, Database Designers, Technical Support. Additionally IS have benefited extensively from our contractor payroll service.