Many years of education sector procurement enables us to deliver best advice.

At Schools' Buying Club we have the benefit of years of procurement experience with much of this specifically focused on the education sector.  This school specific knowledge helps us understand your needs as a school and to deliver the best advice every time.

Our educational category expertise maps across all the main spend areas of a school. Category expertise is simply the way the Schools' Buying Club manages a school's buying activity by grouping together related goods and services such as ICT, administrative supplies, photocopiers, printers, cleaners and mapping them into categories to give us a complete picture of your spend in each particular category. Through category management, we have the ability to help you make decisions about what goods and services are bought, which suppliers are used and what contracts you should enter into - these decisions are made on a category-by-category basis with a view to maximising savings across a school or a cluster as a whole.

Our experts cover all areas of spend and we have specific experts for the key category areas that usually release the most significant savings and opportunities. Our experts live and breathe procurement in a particular category which means they have their finger on the pulse with regards all changes in that particular category of spend. Energy is a highly volatile market and our category experts know the price of energy down to the very minute of every working day. Our photocopier (MFD) experts know the price of machines within a few pounds of each other and can tell you if your operating lease is compliant.