EPISODICICCE

Contractors

The ICCE intention is to change temporary-labour supply for Tier 1, Tier 2 and other major contractors from a model in which greater temporary workforce flexibility creates greater opacity, assurance burden and downstream risk into one where supply can expand without effective control being lost.

What ICCE provides

Tier 1, Tier 2 and other major contractors must be able to increase labour-supply capacity while maintaining visibility of who is participating, where workers are operating, which employment and payment routes are being used and what outcomes are being created across the resulting network. Increasing supply through additional organisations cannot sustainably require a corresponding multiplication of spreadsheets, supplier audits, declarations and retrospective checks.

ICCE exists to provide a common operating and evidence environment across authorised temporary-labour activity. Participation, fulfilment, employment, payroll, payment and evidence remain connected to the relevant projects, works packages and supply routes rather than becoming progressively fragmented as additional organisations enter delivery. This allows contractors to widen access to labour while retaining a controlled, attributable view of the downstream network.

The result is scalable labour access with retained control: a broader and more resilient supply environment without a proportionate increase in opacity, assurance administration or downstream exposure.

Maximise labour flexibility
Total supply visibility
Reduce assurance spend

How this is achieved

The ICCE system provides a common operating layer beneath a wider temporary-labour network. Instead of increasing control by deliberately limiting the number of organisations permitted to participate, ICCE establishes how downstream parties enter, operate and evidence their activity, allowing supply capacity to grow without every new supplier creating another independent assurance problem.

ICCE Onboarding

ICCE Onboarding creates the trusted entry point for downstream organisations and workers.

Identity, organisational information, required evidence and role are processed before relevant access is activated, giving the contractor a known and attributable participant population rather than relying on supplier identity and readiness being asserted independently.

ICCE Engagement Controls

ICCE Engagement Controls provide the controlled environment in which authorised labour activity is actually performed.

Work requirements, participant actions, time information, challenge, correction and completion follow defined system routes, meaning different agencies and downstream parties operate through a consistent control structure rather than introducing a different process every time supply expands.

ICCE Reporting & Intelligence

ICCE Reporting & Intelligence converts controlled activity into project, supply-line, supplier and exception evidence.

Lower-chain performance and outcomes become visible from the same records used to deliver the work, giving the contractor defensible evidence for its own governance and a stronger evidential position when buyers or other upper-chain parties require assurance.

The result is a different model for scaling labour supply: trusted participants, controlled activity and attributable evidence replace supplier restriction as the primary means of preserving confidence. Flexibility increases because the control model is carried by the operating environment rather than by the size of the preferred supplier list.

The Cubes above are the system capabilities most directly relevant to contractor value creation within ICCE. For the complete architecture and full Cube set, view the ICCE System Architecture.

Evidence and outcomes

For contractors, the value of ICCE becomes tangible in the evidence created as a wider labour network operates through the same environment. Participant identity, engagement activity, project context, employment, payroll, payment and resulting exceptions remain connected, creating evidence that supports three outcomes central to the contractor proposition: maximising labour flexibility, maintaining total supply visibility and reducing assurance spend.

Maximise labour flexibility

Participating organisations and workers enter through controlled onboarding and retain identifiable roles, permissions and activity histories as they operate through ICCE.

The contractor can therefore increase labour flexibility across a broader, more resilient supplier population while preserving a known and attributable basis for participation rather than relying primarily on a narrow supplier list to maintain confidence.

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Total supply visibility

Work requirements, engagement activity, time, confirmation, challenge, correction and completion remain connected to the project and supply context in which the labour is being delivered.

As supplier participation expands, the contractor maintains a continuous, attributable view of who participated, where the activity belongs, what occurred and where action or correction was required across the supply line.

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Reduce assurance spend

Project and supplier reporting joins participation, payroll, payment, reconciliation and exception information from the same records used to deliver the work.

Commercial and assurance teams can reduce the time and organisational resource spent reconstructing separate supplier narratives, audit trails and evidence packs, concentrating assurance effort on material exceptions and outcomes instead.

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The outcome is greater labour flexibility with total supply visibility. A larger supplier population creates a larger body of controlled, attributable activity while reducing the time and organisational resource required to understand, govern and evidence the network beneath it.

Contractor participation

Contractors use ICCE through a desktop project and supply-line workspace that brings authorised subcontractors, agencies, labour routes and workforce activity into one operating view. Their access is organised around the projects, works packages and supply environments for which they hold responsibility.

The contractor remains responsible for its projects, downstream commercial relationships and work-related decisions. ICCE supplies the common control and evidence environment around those activities, allowing the contractor to manage a broader labour network without creating a separate administrative and assurance process for every supplier.

Teams connect authorised downstream organisations, oversee temporary-labour requirements and follow fulfilment as activity progresses.

The workspace shows participating parties, active engagements, employment and payment outcomes, exceptions and evidence status, with project and supplier reporting available for commercial, delivery and assurance teams.

Access to ICCE

ICCE is seeking feedback, operational insight, consultation and expressions of interest from contractors that want to widen labour access without weakening supply-chain control. Early discussions will focus on workforce fulfilment, supplier participation, project structures, assurance requirements and the reporting needed across complex delivery environments.

The launch pool will bring together selected organisations committed to improving tax compliance, employment outcomes and responsible procurement while strengthening commercial delivery. ICCE expects early participation to create significant advantage through improved labour access, stronger evidence and reduced supplier-assurance burden. Contractors are encouraged to register their interest through the Stakeholder Interest form.

Daniel Mercer · Alderbridge Commercial director · CTR-0031
Contractor operations

Good morning, Daniel

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Live Frameworks 64 shown below
Supply lines 24+3 this quarter
Active engagements 41297% confirmed
Engagement value £4.82m+£640k this month
Framework portfolio Engagement value across active supply environments
Thames Renewal Partnership £1.82m
8 supply lines · 156 engagements37.8%
Northern Transit Works £1.31m
6 supply lines · 112 engagements27.2%
Civic Estates Programme £0.96m
5 supply lines · 84 engagements19.9%
GreenBuild Retrofit £0.73m
5 supply lines · 60 engagements15.1%
Compliance & outcomes Live transaction-evidence coverage Positive
Payroll & tax compliance
100% 412 PAYE records confirmed
Employment status
100% 412 status records present
Fair work & good jobs
98.9% 407 complete outcome sets
Responsible procurement
99.4% Evidence completeness
Evidence refreshed from live engagement activity
Portfolio records Move between upper-chain Framework and attributable route views
FWK-TRP-01 · Thames Renewal8 authorised supply linesRiverside East + 2156£1.82m99.6%
FWK-NTW-04 · Northern Transit6 authorised supply linesStations North + 1112£1.31m99.2%
FWK-CEP-02 · Civic Estates5 authorised supply linesEstate packages 01–0384£0.96m99.5%

Stakeholder Early Access

Stakeholder Access is for organisations that want to understand ICCE more closely before general release. It provides a controlled route to see the current product direction, understand the stakeholder experience relevant to their role and explore what practical participation could look like in their own operating environment.

Stakeholder access