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Our extensive portfolio of case studies demonstrates our success in facilitating mergers and acquisitions for various organisations. Each case highlights our strategic approach, the challenges faced, and the successful outcomes achieved. By showcasing real-world examples, we illustrate how our expertise and tailored strategies can lead to significant business growth and improved operational efficiency. Discover our case studies here to see how we can apply our experience to your unique strategies and needs. In addition to procurement, our team can provide valuable business advice and guidance from our experienced business coaches. We can assist you in developing effective business plans and strategies for change management, ensuring your organisation adapts and thrives in a dynamic market environment. Contact us now to learn more.
Case Study 1 – Waste Authority Urgent Procurement Support
This project consisted of three extremely urgent and vital procurements undertaken for for a Waste Authority, between June and August 2024.
Procurement Values:-
Legal Services - £2,700,000.00
Financial Services - £1,200,000.00
Technical Services - £1,200,000.00
Proven Success Under Tight Timescales:
We excel in managing procurement exercises with demanding deadlines. On this project we worked with a large waste authority facing urgent requirements to procure three key services that will be critical in the successful development and delivery of a £50m+ critical waste contract.
With less than six weeks to complete the procurement from the award of the contract to Absolute Procure, we developed and implemented three robust tender processes, ensuring full compliance with public procurement regulations and, despite the challenging timeline, delivered on schedule and within budget, enabling the authority to award the contract without delay and appointing high quality suppliers with the capability to deliver the high standard of service required.
Delivering Tangible Savings:
Our strategic tailored approach and expert market engagement resulted in a cost saving in excess of 20% for the authority. This demonstrated our ability to identify opportunities for efficiency and value for money, whilst maintaining service quality, despite the urgency of the requirements.
Customer Satisfaction:
Our project and stakeholder management expertise gave the clients leadership team the utmost confidence that the project would be delivered successfully. We implemented a robust project plan and managed activities and communication to the highest standard, ensuring no delays or unforeseen risks impacted the performance and delivery.
All stakeholders were given clear direction and guidance throughout to understand their responsibilities, to ensure the project remained on track and compliant with regulations.
Case Study 2 – Nuclear Industry Resource Augmentation
Over a 24 month period we provided resource to a specialist organisation in the Nuclear industry, supporting their existing team to deliver a large pipeline of critical projects.
Procurement Values:-
Projects delivered with a total value in excess of £100m.
Public Sector Expertise:
Alongside delivering a range of projects for the organisation, we utilised our Public Sector expertise to improve processes to ensure compliance, whilst delivering optimal outcomes. We also helped to train the permanent staff in effective public procurement, developing guidance documents to support their long term development.
We not only have expertise in Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR15) but also have indepth expertise with the new Procurement Regulations 2024 and are helping clients to adjust their policies, processes and approach to not only ensure compliance but also optimise opportunity presented by the new regulations.
Case Study 3 – Food manufacturing – savings delivery
A manufacturing client was looking to counteract recent cost increases, to reduce costs and improve their profit margins. We were engaged to undertake analysis of their direct and indirect expenditure to identify opportunities for cost savings.
This involved an in-depth diagnostic of the clients expenditure, processes, supply chain and contract management activities to identify and prioritise opportunities.
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Through expenditure and contract reviews, commodity market analysis, waste identification and business process re-engineering and improvement we were able to deliver significant savings with a total value in excess of £500k per annum.
Outcome:-
Highlights of savings delivered as a percentage of addressable spend were as follow:
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Raw materials & packaging – 16%
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IT (MFD’s, mobiles, support, consumable) – 23%
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Freight / Logistics – 8%
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Facilities Management – 17%
Public Sector Expertise:
We have expertise of identifying and delivering savings across many industries and sectors, in both public and private sector settings. Our cutting edge analysis techniques and collaborative approach, allows us to obtain a deep understanding of how money is spent and how contract are serving organisations, to ensure we can identify financial and operational efficiency improvements. Not only delivering savings but improved supply chain performance.
Case Study 4 – Public Sectors Client - Policy and Process Review
A client recognised that their policies and processes were not compliant with Public Contract Regulations 2015 which represented as significant risk to the business as they were failing to comply with many basic requirements of the regulations that could lead to reputational damage, contract failure and the potential payment of fines or damages.
We were engaged initially to review the policies and identify key areas of concern requiring improvement and were subsequently engaged to re-develop all of their procurement policies and processes to ensure compliance and best practice.
Over a 4 month period we worked closely with their team to understand current practices, develop compliant and workable policies and processes and embed these into the organisation. This included developing a full suite of template tender documents and process flows to ensure ease of use and consistency across the organisation.
Outcome:-
We successfully reviewed and redeveloped a full suite of documents and trained key members of the team on how to use the documents. The client was extremely satisfied with the outcome and has since become a regular customer.
Public Sector Expertise:
We not only have expertise in Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR15) but also have indepth expertise with the new Procurement Regulations 2024 and are helping clients to adjust their policies, processes and approach to not only ensure compliance but also optimise opportunity presented by the new regulations.
PRIVACY POLICY
Absolute Procure Ltd is committed to protecting your personal data and to ensuring that your rights to privacy are protected. We will collect data from you at a number of points, including via account or tender registration forms (both online and paper). Your personal data will be stored on secure databases and access will be permitted only to those with a need to know.
In order to be open and transparent, Absolute Procure Ltd wants you to know that:
1. Absolute Procure Ltd is the Data Controller of the information it holds or will hold on you.
2. Absolute Procure Ltd has a nominated person for data protection, and contact details for this person may be obtained by requesting them from us by telephone at 0845 077 2819 or via email at peter@absoluteprocure.com.
3. The information we collect from you and subsequently process may include:
3.1 your contact details (e.g. name, address, telephone numbers, email address, etc.);
3.2 business activities of the person whose personal information we are processing;
3.3 goods and services provided;
3.4 financial details;
3.5 education details;
3.6 employment details and any other data that is relevant to the legitimate aims of Absolute Procure Ltd.
4. The information held on customers may be collected from forms, tender documents and letters, emails, online applications, written material, verbal discussions, text messages, etc.
5. The information is collected and will be processed so that Absolute Procure Ltd may:
5.1 comply with our contractual obligations and provide you with your agreed level of service, including;
5.1.1 contacting you in relation to and arranging matters relating to our services;
5.1.2 contacting you to advise you of upcoming events or opportunities which may be of interest to you;
5.1.3 arranging, maintaining, managing and taking other steps in relation to your and/or your business operation;
5.1.4 providing you with general news about Absolute Procure Ltd (including information about other products and ways we can assist your business), with the newsletter and e-newsletter (in both paper and electronic format); and
5.2 collate management information to adjust our services accordingly;
5.3 ascertain, verify and analyse compliance with anti-money laundering regulations; and
5.4 evaluate the effectiveness of our services.
6. In particular, Absolute Procure Ltd has the following legal bases for the processing of your personal data:
6.1 For non-special / non-sensitive data:
6.1.1 where it is necessary for the performance of any contract you may have with Absolute Procure Ltd, or to take steps to enter into such a contract; and
6.1.2 where it is necessary for the purposes of Absolute Procure Ltd's legitimate interests.
6.2 For special/sensitive data:
6.2.1 where it has been manifestly made public by you; and
6.2.2, where it is necessary for statistical purposes in accordance with Article 89 of the General Data Protection Regulation, in a manner that provides suitable and specific measures to safeguard your fundamental rights and interests (including pseudonymisation and/or anonymisation).
7. In addition to the above bases, Absolute Procure Ltd may also process any of your personal data for other reasons where it has received your explicit, freely given consent.
8. The information may be shared with third parties for administration and/or management purposes where it is necessary and lawful for Absolute Procure Ltd to do so. However, Absolute Procure Ltd will share only the minimum information that is necessary. Such sharing of information will include the following:
8.1 provided you have given consent, we will share information (including sensitive personal data and/or special categories of data) with our insurers and insurance brokers (including Your Insurance broker) for the purposes of arranging, maintaining, managing and taking other steps in relation to your and/or our insurance;
8.2 we will share information with our partners so that we are able to comply with our contractual obligations and provide you with your agreed contractual services, including but not limited to the following parties:
8.2.1 Microsoft Office 365 – Privacy Notice Link for their website is as follows – https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/privacystatement;
8.2.2 Delta eSourcing – Privacy Notice Link for their website is as follows – https://www.delta-esourcing.com/privacy-policy/;
8.2.3 Dropbox – Privacy Notice Link for their website is as follows – https://www.dropbox.com/privacy.
8.3 we will share information with the following parties on the basis that it is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, including the following parties
8.3.1 law enforcement; and
8.3.2 the relevant revenue and customs service.
9. The information will not be processed outside the EEA without your prior written consent.
10. The information will be retained for as long as is necessary and in accordance with clause 11 below. When the information is no longer required, it will be destroyed securely.
11. You have certain rights, which include:
11.1 the right to obtain access to your personal data (what personal data of yours Absolute Procure Ltd holds);
11.2 the right to have personal data rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
11.3 the right to request the deletion or removal of personal data where we are not otherwise entitled to retain and process such data and there is no compelling reason for its continued processing;
11.4 the right to restrict or suppress the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances. Further information is available upon request;
11.5 the right to withdraw consent at any time, where relevant; and
11.6 the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (the Information Commissioner’s Office). The ICO can be contacted on 0303 123 1113, Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm, or via this link: https://ico.org.uk/concerns.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us by telephone at 0845 077 2318 or via email at hello@absoluteprocure.com for details of how an application may be made.