How do you go about making significant savings for your school?
Making significant savings on services is often a time consuming task, spending hours shopping around for the best quotes, debating whether they're the right ones for your school and trying to take sustainable practices into consideration. Throw in the requirement for all of these purchases to be compliant with your Financial Regulations and EU Procurement Directives and it can start to impact on other important work for the school.
That's where the Schools' Buying Club comes in.
We have identified seven main areas in which savings can be made:
- Administrative supplies
- Energy
- Facilities management
- ICT
- Photocopiers (MFDs) and printers
- Supply staff
- Others such as broadband, telecoms, payroll, insurance & HR
There are some easy steps you can take to begin making these savings. Your first step is joining the Schools' Buying Club, a FREE club. Join today to access our buyer's guides which detail the simple steps which you can follow to begin making savings.
We've made some amazing savings for schools:
Supply teaching - £176,000 to £220,000 per annum saved. We delivered a collaborative internal resource pool model with shared software to 35 schools, giving each school up-to-date information at all times.
Catering - £250,000 per annum saved. We renegotiated existing catering contracts for 54 schools based on benchmarked data we held on the market price.
Insurance - £58,000 per annum saved. We used benchmarked data to reduce costs across 39 schools by an average of 30%.
Payroll - £37,200 per annum savings. We renegotiated average cost per payslip from £6.33 to £4 across 59 schools.
Energy - £34,000 savings. We undertook a Bill Validation on energy costs for one school which showed a number of bill irregularities that resulted in a full rebate.
Photocopiers and MFDs - £119,000 savings. We identified significant savings during a new procurement exercise through the use of smarter technology.