Consulting
Our consulting services include:
Proposals
- Assistance provided with Request for Proposals (RFP), Request for Information (RFI), Request for X (RFx) documents creation and tender response strategies.
- Helping buyers to create specifications, write bid documents for a wide range of products and services.
- Assist in evaluation of proposals received, assist with negotiations and contract award, reducing costs, and generating revenue where applicable.
- Advice and guidance for responding to the public sector solicitation.
- Proposal writing, either taking the lead to write your proposal or editing and suggesting changes to your document
- How to prepare for Proponents’ meetings and other opportunities where you can meet public sector buyers
- Advice on what to expect from the public sector during contract negotiations
Process
- Build a sensible procurement decision making process
- Construct defensible and effective evaluation architecture
- Operational review/Gap analysis on public procurement best practices
Policies
- Drafting procurement policies and policy guide with or without social procurement values
- Developing procurement policies and procedures which can then be applied to strategic sourcing, contract negotiations and contract management.
Tools and templates
- Deliver best-in-class bidding templates that are simple and effective
- Create customized tools for your internal clients
- Full suite of bid and contract templates
Governance model
- Recommendations on reporting structure/governance model for your procurement function
Staffing skills
- Assess procurement staff competencies
- Provide a means to develop staffing skills including training programs
- Support your large, complex procurement projects
Technology
- Guide your organization to enable technology that can transform your procurement process
Planning
- Developing and executing Strategic procurement plans identifying the gaps and opportunities
- Creating roadmaps to reach new process efficiencies
Project management
- Project management services provided to clients looking for successful project delivery within stipulated budgets and timelines, mitigating risks associated with scope, project costs and performance.
Fairness
- During Planning Phase: Fairness Advisor – working with your team during procurement planning to advise on design of procurement process, risk mitigation and evaluation methodology.
- During Solicitation Phase: Fairness Monitor - monitoring the conduct of the procurement process to ensure it is conducted in a fair and transparent manner.
- Post Award Phase: Fairness Auditor - comprehensive review of the process to confirm it was conducted in a fair and transparent manner.
- Ongoing support: Ongoing support for your procurement team, either for a specific procurement project or more generally, to provide practical and defensible strategies to address procurement fairness and transparency issues. This can involve assisting with procurement planning, review of draft documents, assisting with design and conduct of the evaluation process, and providing advice on issues that arise during any phase of the procurement cycle.
Spend analysis
- Identify areas for leveraging the spend and/or consolidation of suppliers, including projected cost savings over a 3-year period
- Reduce the price you pay through effective Strategic Sourcing techniques
- Analysis of inventory turnover rates and Key Performance Indices
Social procurement
- Develop strategies and implementation of integrated framework
Our subject matter experts who provide consulting represent the top 5% in the industry. For your consulting needs on public sector procurement, please reach out to us at [email protected].
Our subject matter experts who provide consulting have ~25 years of industry experience. For your consulting needs on public/private sector procurement, please reach out to us at [email protected].