We're here to offer advice and guidance and to take the strain out of compliant procurement.
We can help your school to save money in a variety of ways. We're not just your gateway to best value products and services, we're your procurement critical friend for any guidance you need about betting best value for your school. We're always at the end of the phone, available on live chat or an email away from giving you the best possible advice on all of your spending queries.
Our services expand far beyond the procurement expertise we can provide your school or cluster. We have national benchmarking data that allows us to quickly establish your current spend profile and we can also conduct a detailed spend analysis of your spend over the last three years to better equip you with your spend profile and habits. We are also contract experts and we can help you understand your obligations and those of your supplier to ensure you are getting value for money and the quality of service you are paying for.
Our service is completely independent which means we are not tied to any particular supplier, contract, framework or other purchasing organisation.
We are your independent procurement critical friend who will advise you on:
- What to buy
- When to buy it
- Where to buy it from
- How to buy it
- How to contract for it
- How to manage the contract
We have also managed a number of school clusters to procure regionally and collaboratively. We know your time is scarce and important which is why we offer to take your cluster through potential areas of saving, category by category, so we can assist with building you a procurement roadmap that helps your cluster mature without any one school ever being obligated to be part of something they don't want to be.
We strongly believe that flexibility and the ability to tap into something when it feels right, is the best model for your school. There is 'no one size fits all' when it comes to schools so we work with you to understand your current journey and we aim to support you through expert help.
We can help you through:
- Benchmarking and spend analysis
- Education category expertise
- Group buying power
- Independent procurement support
- Managed service procurement