Procurement consultancy
Procurement expertise for transformation programmes.
We work alongside your in-house procurement team on technology and wider business change. We diagnose what is holding a programme back, design the right commercial approach, and see it through to contract.
How we help
Engage us for one stage or all three. Most clients start with a short diagnostic.
01
Diagnosis
We find the root cause of what is slowing your transformation. We talk to your people and your suppliers, analyse contracts and spend, appraise the options, and run focused workshops.
02
Design
We design the procurement route that fits what you are buying and how your organisation works, and test it through a business case where you need one.
03
Delivery
We support your team from light-touch advice through to running the procurement end to end, working inside your governance so the work is done quickly and right first time.
Typical engagements
Each engagement is shaped to the decision you need to make. These are the situations we are most often asked to help with.
- Competitive tenders and supplier selection
- Cost optimisation
- Contract renegotiation
- Exiting legacy contracts and systems
- Insourcing and outsourcing decisions
- Buyer consortia and strategic alliances
- Business cases and options appraisals
Senior people, directly involved
We have delivered technology and business transformation for more than 40 years. The people you meet are the people who do the work.
Our aim is simple: to help you reach your transformation goals quickly and safely, with affordable, effective procurement support at every stage of a programme, from first diagnosis to contract and beyond.
Alastair Lord
Founder and Director
Alastair’s expertise spans banking, insurance, manufacturing, central government, police and healthcare.
Selected work
Banking
Outsourced the core services of a UK bank to a global bank, in preparation for a full acquisition. Subsequently managed the outsourced service for the UK bank.
Health
Procured a wide range of clinical and back-office systems for multiple consortia of NHS Trusts, leading to substantial clinical transformation.
Insurance
Reduced third-party costs across a diverse range of business areas, saving several million pounds.
Financial services
Delivered a cost optimisation programme for third-party non-IT services, in preparation for an acquisition.
Talk to us
Tell us about the programme and where it is stuck.
Location
London, UK