Spend more, pay less

Collaboration between public sector bodies in the procurement of goods and services has the potential to deliver significant efficiencies. But it’s rare for one public sector body to know how much other public sector organisations, who they might collaborate with, spends by supplier or category. This means opportunities to aggregate spend and contract jointly can be overlooked.

The Observatory fundamentally alters the dynamics of effective collaboration by making it easy to analyse the spend of multiple public sector bodies and identify common suppliers. At a stroke, any information advantage held by the supplier is eliminated and a more constructive dialogue relating to real savings is possible.

Compare

Collaborate

• What proportion of your spend is with suppliers common to at least one other public sector body?
• Which suppliers are generating the highest aggregate sales from the group you’ve chosen to analyse?
• In which category of good or service is the highest incidence of commonality?
• Which suppliers are currently supplying every member of the selected group?

Contract

• What proportion of your spend by category with contracted suppliers is on national, sectoral or local contracts?
• How does your spend with suppliers with whom you do, or do not, have a contract compare with your peers across the public sector?

Measure

• How does your organisations delivered efficiency performance compare relative to national and sectoral benchmarks?

To arrange a meeting to discuss how implementation of the Observatory can help you to identify opportunities for potential procurement related collaboration in your own organisation then please contact us.