Contract Consultants

Capacitas believes that the customers of performance and capacity expertise in the UK would be better served by using contract resources on a project basis, rather than fixed-length contracts of multiples of 6 months. The majority of customer requirements are to cover project work rather than business-as-usual activities; although once a contractor is recruited they often become one of the standard team resources. We do not believe that this is a cost effective use of contract staff, nor is it advantageous for top calibre contract consultants, as they face many career affecting issues with long-term contracts. As such we have launched a Flexible Analyst Service. This is aimed at encouraging customers to refine their usage of contract performance and capacity consultants, either focussing them on specific projects drawn down against a retainer style contract, or tasking them to deliver specific deliverables bundled together into a single service offering.

The benefits for the customer are that:

• They only pay for the time that they actually need, albeit at a higher daily rate, therefore making a more cost-effective investment overall
• They buy a skilled service from Capacitas, provided via a service level agreement, making delivery guaranteed
• They are not tied to a single contractor, so can buy a cross-match of skills as required and are covered for absences of individual consultants

The benefits for the contract consultant are that:

• They can build up a portfolio of contracts within the Flexible Analyst to provide a consistent revenue
• They are not eligible for IR35 registration or similar, as they are providing genuine consultancy services and are not bound to a single 'employer'
• They receive higher daily rates than typical 6-monthly contracts
• They undertake more interesting work on a project or deliverable basis

In this respect please note that Capacitas does not provide a typical recruitment agency service, in that we only focus on certain aspects of the application development lifecycle; architecture assurance, systems performance and capacity management; although delivered via many products or services. Most modern large enterprises insist on a single or small number of suppliers of recruitment services. As such our focus does not warrant Capacitas becoming a 1st tier recruitment agency. However, our technical focus does enable us to offer a unique 2nd tier supplier service. We aim to become a supplier of performance and capacity contract staff to the majority of 1st tier recruitment agencies in the UK. Capacitas has the following unique reasons that enable us to offer this service:

• We are uniquely focussed on the end-to-end performance of information systems, with industry-leading experience in both information and communication technology
• We are the industry leaders in supplying vendor independent performance and capacity management education across a coherent and broad technology syllabus
• We utilise only the best consultants in the industry on our customer projects to protect our reputation
• We have a proven objective method of identifying the best performance and capacity management staff, utilising interviews and written assessments
• Importantly, we are not a generic recruitment agency, therefore we understand exactly what the customer needs when recruiting capacity and performance staff

If you are a performance or capacity consultant in the ICT industry with significant expertise and senior-level experience, and are interested in registering with Capacitas as a Flexible Analyst, then please email us at careers@capacitas.co.uk.