Managed Procurement Service

We are leaders in the provision of procurement and contract management solutions to the public sector. Our services help our customers achieve better value from their external spend, enabling them to reinvest the savings into frontline services.

Our focus has always been to deliver services that are aligned to our customers’ needs, and we have developed the Managed Procurement Service (MPS) to bring together these services as a holistic solution. The MPS enables public sector organisations to maximize efficiencies within their procurement team(s) by accessing a variety of our services and creating a single approach. In turn, our solutions compliantly deliver transformation and innovation.

A Holistic Solution

The MPS is a top-down solution to procurement challenges. It starts with understanding your current processes, people and data before developing a bespoke offering.

We can address all of your organisational spend, allowing a single overarching approach to maximise efficiencies and benefits. Procurement Services can provide all of the appropriate resources to analyse data, implement processes/ systems and manage procurement and contracts on a long-term basis.
This approach will free up internal resource to redeploy elsewhere as we manage procurement on your behalf.

The service also enables senior officers to have visibility, control and accountability from managing a single supplier (Procurement Services) as we in turn manage suppliers and contracts on your behalf.

Efficiencies and Savings

The MPS will have direct access to our 80+ framework agreements which have been compliantly procured and set up for ease of use and value for money. As these frameworks are managed in-house, it provides benefits of efficiency and savings from accessing our supply base.

Where required, we will manage further competitions and above threshold procurements, in-line with the latest procurement regulations utilising our experienced procurement teams.

By addressing all spend, we will create a service that manages both low-value, high volume requirements and high value, complex contracts to maximise value across your organisation and allow a self-sustaining service delivery model.

Social Value

As social value becomes increasingly necessary and embedded within procurement, the MPS will incorporate these requirements into the service we deliver. All of our framework contracts include social value within the supply chain ensuring that the requirements are consistently being met.

Our procurement teams will also work with you and the suppliers to develop relevant and meaningful social value criteria into new contracts. Our service also allows for the monitoring and reporting on social value criteria to ensure that commitments made at the outset of a contract are built in and achieved to deliver in a sustainable manner.

Transparency of Spend

At the outset, all spend and contract data will be gathered and assessed to form a robust procurement and savings delivery plan. This information can be stored in our contract management system (OPTIMiSe) to provide you with a single view of all spend and procurement activity.

The system will show for each contract, where it is in the procurement cycle and what has been delivered against it in terms of savings and contract objectives. We can also track spend and savings on a category basis and work with your internal services / departments to ensure needs are being met, efficiently.
Our system and processes are flexible enough to integrate with your existing solutions / system as required, and will be considered as part of the set-up process for the new service.