{"id":3102,"date":"2024-09-30T11:05:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T10:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2024-09-30T14:54:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:54:43","slug":"consultant-and-contractor-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2024\/09\/30\/consultant-and-contractor-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Consultant and Contractor Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">From 30th\u00a0September 2024, the way the University will be appointing Consultants and Contractors will change. From this date, any and all Consultants and Contractors engaged, will need to follow a new process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If your anticipated spend meets <em>any<\/em>\u00a0of the following three criteria you must follow this process.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spend is expected to be \u00a330,000 or more<\/li>\n<li>The day rate for the provision of this service (pro-rata) is \u00a3400\/day or more<\/li>\n<li>They are expected to be engaged for 30 days or more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have already engaged a Consultant or Contractor, you should review their engagement and if you intend to extend the arrangement, contact Procurement for advice.<\/p>\n<p>You must perform an IR35 check as mandated by HMRC. <u><a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Fcheck-employment-status-for-tax&amp;data=05%7C02%7CA.Beger%40kent.ac.uk%7Ce52bcabbd29943515f6608dcde1a0ddf%7C51a9fa563f32449aa7213e3f49aa5e9a%7C0%7C0%7C638629452622481712%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=dmLS605ZU6aC1DgO%2BuGI6opl7lTsAkAottt%2BgnKgnVA%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-auth=\"Verified\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/check-employment-status-for-tax<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>All Contractors and Consultants that meet the above criteria must be engaged on standard and agreed Terms &amp; Conditions, with a specified set of duties \/ responsibilities \/ deliverables. If you seek to engage a Contractor of Consultant you should complete the Engagement Request, alongside a proposal from the Contractor\/Consultant, using University approved Terms &amp; Conditions (insert link to <em>Terms And Conditions For Consultancy Services<\/em>). If it is not an option for multiple quotes, you should use the Single Supplier Waiver as well as the Consultant Engagement Request. In order to appoint you will need the following :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consultant Engagement Request<\/li>\n<li>IR 35 Result<\/li>\n<li>Specification Of Services<\/li>\n<li>Agreed Terms And Conditions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Contract Award Letter can only be authorised by Procurement. Failure to follow this process exposes all parties to risk, including that relation to Employment Tax.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/files\/2024\/09\/Contract-Award-Letter-Consultancy-September-2024.doc\">Contract Award Letter &#8211; Consultancy September 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/files\/2024\/09\/Copy-of-Consultant-Engagement-Request.pdf\">Copy of Consultant Engagement Request<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kind Regards<\/p>\n<p>Procurement Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 30th\u00a0September 2024, the way the University will be appointing Consultants and Contractors will change. From this date, any and all Consultants and Contractors engaged, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2024\/09\/30\/consultant-and-contractor-engagement\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137335],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3113,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions\/3113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}