Consultancy services
Strategic Sourcing and Procurement - Local Authorities
“The result was very impressive. Particularly when you consider that the Council had already been through a procurement savings process with one of the large traditional accountancy based consulting firms. Their work has enabled the Council to deliver improved services with substantial reductions in cost that exceeded even my own initial expectations.”
Head of Business Transformation, Unitary Authority
Key Benefits
- Cashable savings - allowing a reduction by at least 1 percentage point off the Council Tax
- Faster development of infrastructure - through effective, output-based specification and monitoring of suppliers’ and contractors’ performance, and release of budgets for additional services
- Enhanced commercial skills - dramatically improved commercial astuteness of management generally, and dramatically raised profile of Procurement
- Significant reduction of CO2 emissions - through efficient energy management
- Shared services - opportunity to set up shared services in procurement and human resources
- Improved bugetary control - through greater visibility of purchases, and implementation of Demand Management mechanisms
- Fit-for-purpose procurement team - sustainability of results through tools; compliance with National Procurement Strategy, Gershon Agenda and the Sustainable Procurement Taskforce report “Procuring the Future”
- Agile working - paving the way for broader changes and even greater benefits for Transformation Projects’
What We Do
- Opportunity assessment, project design & stakeholder engagement
- P-2-P project (Purchase to Pay): rationalising processes and designing and implementing specific workflows within Procurement Systems, in order to support category-specific procurement strategies (e.g. mini-competitions on Framework Agreements)
- Introduction of new management tools: e.g. Procurement Plan, in order to anticipate forthcoming procurement activities within Departments and Procurement Board in order to systematically involve the relevant Directors in the decision-making processes, Savings Monitoring tools, etc.
- Procurement Communication Plan
- Stakeholder Training Programme
Category Management
