Collaborative Procurement Partnering

Our team of category and sourcing expert’s partner with you to maximise the power of collaborative value across your Integrated Care System (ICS).

We provide you with the strategic capacity and capability to extract the best value from every pound you spend, working with you to develop a data-driven workplan for your ICS. The service includes:

  • Analysis of total ICS spend and inputs, including contract data and pipelines, by category
  • A report detailing quick wins and opportunities for standardisation and aggregation
  • Creation of an ICS workplan that unlocks savings opportunities, with optional delivery on your behalf

We take a category management approach, capitalising on supplier innovation and category-based sourcing, providing you with actionable insights that create efficiencies across your ICS.

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How we can support you

Savings opportunities
Proactive identification and delivery of cashable savings for your ICS, implemented at pace

Cost-efficient
Flexible service support based on your needs with commercial model options that work with your budget, minimising cost-barriers that prevent ICS collaboration

Supplier management
We work with suppliers to identify opportunities for innovation and value-based procurement, delivering greater value across the supply chain

Project and change management
We provide additional capacity and specialist skills, with programme managed delivery, so you can focus on other value-add activity. Our robust programme governance and change management ensures effective and efficient delivery, bringing organisations across the ICS together for maximum impact

Changes for the greatest impact
A data-led approach allows us to prioritise outputs and identify the most cost-effective approach, delivering the greatest value first

Strategic category management
Category based sourcing drives total ICS value and enables efficient contract management at category level, reducing out of contract spend and standardising products

Optional services

Our team can also support you with the below complementary services:

Low value and complexity sourcing
Agile low value and low complexity sourcing for cost-effective and assured sourcing support on all sub-threshold spend

Shared ICS catalogue
Implementation of the updates to the catalogue, with the option to create an ICS wide catalogue, and go a step further to take responsibility for ongoing management and updates through our Catalogue Management Service

Strategic procurement leadership
ICS strategy and policy creation, and support with business case development or review. Category strategy creation and ongoing management, plus contract management

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Why Partner with us?

We add value through the development and implementation of high-quality, cost effective corporate services, providing a level of innovation and efficiency which would be impossible for an organisation to deliver in isolation.

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As a trusted partner for the public sector for 20 years, find out how we can help improve your public services

As a trusted partner for the public sector for 20 years, find out how our experts can help improve your public services.