Within the unprecedented financial constraints which organisations find themselves working under, it has never been more important to use the supplier community effectively.   Methods brings fresh thinking and end-to-end support throughout this process, negotiating the trade-offs between innovation and risk, bespoke and commodity, and in-house versus outsourced solutions and services, helping to look at existing supplier relationships with fresh eyes.  Our support includes trialling new ‘pay-as-you-go’ procurement models, conducting value for money benchmarking, performing strategic sourcing reviews, and ensuring you are positioned to take advantage of the rapidly developing ‘-as a service’ marketplace to drive down cost.

We also provide ad hoc assistance with particular procurement activities as required.  Such assistance can involve developing a requirements catalogue, performing an evaluation of what is available in the current market, developing an ITT, evaluating tenders, selecting a supplier, setting service level agreements, drafting measurable contracts, and ensuring delivery – including post-implementation review.  Within the public sector, this may include piloting a procurement through Gateway procedures, as well as establishing ITIL frameworks for service delivery contracts.  Our consultants are familiar with PPP, PFI, outsourcing initiatives and the original market testing guidelines.