Havering Education Services

Strategic procurement partner

Schools’ Buying Club is the strategic procurement partner for Havering Education Services (HES), Havering Council’s brand for providing support services and training to the education sector. SBC advises, add technical capacity and delivers hands on support for the collaborative procurement support offered to schools via the HES Brokerage Service.

“Through their methodical and painstaking approach, SBC’s professional input over the past three years has made a significant difference in ensuring that we continue to provide a robust brokerage service to schools, enabling them to purchase goods and services cost effectively and compliantly. SBC’s willingness and readiness to collaborate in developing our service specifications continues to give us added value in ensuring that tender documents published are comprehensive and fit for purpose. A key strength of SBC is their personnel, they are very knowledgeable and can be completely trusted to deliver results.” Shola Omogbehin, Head of Education Traded Services