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Unlike many consultancy companies, we do not try to persuade our clients to buy expensive third party solutions that are unnecessary or inappropriate for their business needs.
Where we do recommend using third parties, we work mainly with niche providers, often SMEs, whom we know offer a robust, cost effective solution or service.
We are keen to work with businesses where we know that they can be relied upon to deliver high standards of service and quality at a fair and reasonable cost.
Our current business alliances include:
Advanced Business Solutions (ABS), formerly COA Solutions, provides leading integrated business applications and services that enable public sector organisations retain control, improve visibility and gain efficiencies whilst continually improving corporate performance.
ABS' software systems comprise of core financial management and procurement, integrated with a range of collaborative, document management and business intelligence solutions, and a range of managed or fully hosted services. Our breadth of solutions can deliver collaborative and shared service working practices within and across multiple organisations.
ABS prides itself on getting close to its customers by understanding their businesses and responding to their evolving needs. We have a wealth of knowledge and experience gained from many public sector customer implementations ready to share with you in order to achieve the improved service and delivery aims of your organisation.
Coding International (CIL) is a company that specialises in all types of procurement coding. They amange two public sector procurement coding systems, this includes ProClass, and have mapped the main public sector coding systems in use to each other. They have also created bespoke coding systems for public and private organisations.
CILhas mapped the London boroughs' third party procurement expenditureto ProClass for the last 3 years. A total of 94% of their influenceable spend has been mapped to ProClass - this represents 38.3b per year. Prior to this an analysis of spend was impossible owing to the different expenditure headings used by each council.Implementing ProClass has allowed detailed spend analysis leading to greater collaboration and savings across all London boroughs..
Terry Ashmore, Managing Director of CIL, has a wide knowledge of procurement in public and private organiosations - "Accurate procurement coding is the key to expenditure analysis, which enables collaboration and reduced procurement spend. It is amazing that in the 21st century there are still many public bodies that have no knowledge of the basic information requirements of a procurement department - what is bought, how many, from whom and when!"
Impact Change Solutions Ltd provides tailored services for the public sector and their partners. The core specialisms of the company - finance, value for money, transformation, HR, culture, change management, customer services and project management – are combined into unique packages that fit the needs of individual customers.
During the last three years, the company has delivered successful change and transformation projects in Councils across the UK, Registered Social Landlords and a state owned bank. One of the biggest projects has been the Mobilising Community Capital Programme in the West Midlands, managing the transformation of Adult Social Care across all fourteen Local Authorities in the region. Barry Scarr, Director at Impact Change, says "given the success of our work in the West Midlands, we have just launched our new Market Shaping service for all councils looking at the transformation of Adult Social Care. Like our core offering, it offers a unique modular approach that has flexible solutions to a difficult problem."
New Information Paradigms (NIP), founded in 1989,delivers web-based software solutions for professional teams. Our web-based solutions are focussed on eliminating inefficiencies and supporting new ways of working and are currently focussed in the Public and Pharmaceutical sectors, and also in the area of Relationship Development.
The issues facing the public sector essentially boild down to a need to do "More for Less", over a prolonged period of time. This requires complete (and focussed) control over perspective over both existing and planned procurement / commissioning activity.
PL-cms, NIP's Life Cycle Management system, is about gaining control over, and generating strategic perspective into the complete lifespan of Procurement and Commissioning. It builds on NIP's Active Contract Register (ACR), a logical, practical and pragmatic starting point that captures and connects all relevant Contract Details and Documents, delivering control, access, visibility ans security at different organisational levels (Directorate, Cost Centre, Business Unit etc.)
The ACR is also the basis of the Collaborative Contracts Register, on which we have worked with SPS and which is currently in use across all 33 London boroughs holding details of contracts worth over £26 billion.
Procurement initiatives often operate in a complex stakeholder landscape, with multiple interests and agendas, and people with very different perspectives and roles. Well planned and managed communication plays a key part in getting all these factors to gel, to achieve the outcomes you want and avoid the complications and conflict you don't want.
Rubus delivers value-creating corporate and project communication services that focus on people and excellence. We support high profile public sector procurement projects, working with supply chains and at times with complex structurea and power bases across multi sector stakeholder groups. We work with you to develop powerful communication strategies and initiativesthat fully engage your stakeholders and get the impact and outcomes you want. We facilitate productive consultations, develop workable communication plans and support clients to win industry recognition and awards.
As well as direct consultancy support, we equip key individuals in public sector organisations to get the best from their most valued procurement relationships. We coach and train them to become skillful, flexible communicators, problem solvers and negotiators, and to be a greater asset to their organsiations.
Selhurst Consulting is an established provider of HR and management training programmes for sizeable organisations in both the public and private sectors.
It provides unique tailored, cost effective solutions, always quality assured by the CIPD, to drive up the ability of HR and training professionals to make a significant contribution to the achievement of business goals.
Amongst many key initiatives Selhurst is leading the way in promoting blended and competency based learning in the delivery of CIPD and CMI qualifications, and is the only accredited HR training provider the the vibrant economy of Gibraltar.