CWS 3.0: October 31, 2012

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Contract Watch: Staff Care, Staff Management

Recent announcements of new staffing contracts include deals between Staff Care and Novation as well as Staff Management | SMX and logistics firm OHL.

Novation chose Staff Care as its single-source provider for locum tenens as well as locum tenens managed services. Novation is a healthcare supply chain contracting company based in Irving, Texas. It develops and manages competitive contracts with more than 600 suppliers. Its 65,000 members include VHA Inc., a network of community-owned healthcare systems, and UHC, an alliance of medical centers and hospitals. Staff Care is a division of AMN Healthcare Services Inc. AMN has been a supplier of nurse and allied staffing to Novation since 2004.

Staff Management | SMX entered into a new deal to provide workforce management — including its StaffTrack vendor management system — with OHL. Based in Brentwood, Tenn., OHL is a global third-party logistics firm with more than 32 million square feet of flexible warehouse space and more than 7,000 employees. The arrangement includes hiring primarily for light industrial and administrative/clerical positions as well as some technical positions. StaffTrack is not a stand-alone VMS but is part of Staff Management’s workforce management solution.