Joined up public sector procurement requires joined up spend data

In order to facilitate comparisons with other public sector organisations, benchmark your procurement performance and identify joint contracting opportunities, you need to have access to relevant data from other public sector organisations. However, most financial systems will simply not contain that data. This severely limits your ability to generate meaningful comparisons, benchmark procurement performance or identify joint contracting opportunities.

To overcome these obstacle we do two key things:

1. We invest considerable time and effort in the creation and management of master supplier records to which your own supplier records and the records of those also trading with that same supplier are linked. This makes it possible for you to quickly and easily identify opportunities to collaborate with your peers, across the public sector through the aggregation of common spend.

2. We aggregate all of the spend and related data for each public sector body we work for, into a single, unified and consistent master database. In this way, meangingful comparisons with your peers are possible, as the process we use to standardise, classify & aggregate public sector spend data is identical, irrespective of the size, location or type of public sector body.