Technical Procurement and Vendor Management
Optimising Supplier delivery, procurement and Vendor selection for ICT, Change and cloud services.
Help you to consolidate, enhance, refine and renew your supplier and cloud platforms. Across ICT and Cloud Services, getting the right supporting resources, delivery teams, and suppliers. Structure the ICT Services that will change the quality of your capabilities, and ultimately business.
Whether you are making your first steps into using cloud ( either Public or Private ), enhancing to meet security and compliance needs, or pushing through improvements to enhance service quality and resilience, we have the experience, skills and tools to help you make those leaps.
- How to harmonise and consolidate the multitude of different platforms and services, and provide efficient, effective and agile delivery ?
- Can we reduce complexities in Service Delivery, while responding to business needs in being flexible and responsive ?
- Have we the right designs to meet multi-jurisdictional challenges, security risks and distributed cloud needs ?
- With our current multi-cloud approach, do we need to migrate to a single provider ?
- Knowledge of strategic assets – Enterprise licence deals – how to leverage for best VfM
Key Features and Benefits of our Technical Procurement and Vendor Management Services.
Features
- Delivery of value for money, appropriate quality services to meet business needs, with Effective Governance
- Agile function that delivers with agility and flexibility
- Drive Innovation and Change throughout the delivery Life cycle
- Commission, measure and manage work based on Outcomes
- Enable friction less, responsive supplier/business contracts
- Encourage/drive Partnering Behaviours with suppliers and partners
- Support change in the sourcing approach as the business needs or external environment changes
- Driving service delivery through balanced scorecards and standard KPI’s
Benefits
- Provide Enterprise Wide Governance, Service Aligned Organisation
- Create stability between demand and supply: Intelligent Workload Placement
- Drive friction-less, responsive supplier/business contracts.
- Commission work (outcomes/output based “SMART” requirements)
- Select the best delivery channel & partner and ensure competitive and fair process.
- Incentivise suppliers and encourage/drive partnering behaviours - build trust
- De-Risk Delivery: Align common outcomes between demand and supply to motivate all parties
- Focus on developing long term strategic partnerships with vendors: Demonstrate Value
Key Roles and Capabilities for Technical Procurement and Vendor Management
Our team includes skills and capabilities to support the full range of roles required to make Technical Procurement and Vendor Management successful. The following list outlines the key roles that are typically requird to meet delivery in complex and changing operational environments.
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Procurement Manager: Responsible for managing the overall vendor management process. Develop, implement, and maintain policies and procedures for procuring goods and services from vendors.
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Vendor Relationship Manager: Works closely with all stakeholders to ensure successful relationships with vendors, including service level agreement (SLA) management and negotiation.
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Procurement Analyst: Responsible for researching potential vendors, evaluating their capabilities, and making recommendations on which vendor should be selected. Conduct cost-benefit analyses to determine the most cost-effective solutions.
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Contract Manager: Responsible for drafting, negotiating, and finalising contracts with suppliers and vendors. Ensure that all terms are agreed and in line with organisational goals.
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Vendor Performance Manager: Responsible for monitoring and evaluating the performance of vendors to ensure that they are meeting the organisation's objectives and requirements.
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Vendor Quality Assurance Manager: Responsible for ensuring that vendors are providing high-quality goods and services in accordance with organisational standards. Conduct audits or reviews of vendor performance to assess compliance with standards.
Summary
- ICT Procurement, Outsourcing and Transition support, in technology, managed Service and Cloud solutions.
- Full Outsourcing Life-cycle. Skilled Public and Private sector experience from initial procurement, through to Exit and transition.
- Procurement and supplier strategy, to reduce costs and deliver better services to the business
- Expert skills in SIAM based service delivery, and Transformation in a Cloud/ICT managed service environment.
- Moving traditional in-house or single supplier service models to federated, Cloud based multi-vendor estates.
- Intelligent Client Function (Design and Implementation),
- Service Organisation Redesign around outsourced and towered delivery.
Mission
From IT Leadership, Client Side Advisory, Programme Management, through to Project Team delivery, we can provide the skills, experience and quality needed to deliver success. Our solutions provide resolution to the most challenging environments and programmes. With over 20 years of service delivery, procurement, sourcing, solution delivery and secure solutions, we provide a fresh look at how best to meet technology related goals, with controlled managed risk. With experience across private and public sector, finance, education, health care, and law enforcement. We can bring the perspective needed to help you navigate complex delivery, technology, resource and supplier issues, across the UK, Europe and Middle East.
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