1. www.sps-consultancy.co.uk ©SPS Consultancy Services Ltd 2012 SPS Consultancy Services Our first 10 years of making a difference....

2. www.sps-consultancy.co.uk ©SPS Consultancy Services Ltd 2012 Rebranded as SPS Consultancy Services Ltd in 2008 Founded as Strategic Procurement Services in 2001by Ken Cole and Rowena Ward

3. www.sps-consultancy.co.uk ©SPS Consultancy Services Ltd 2012 We are a specialist consultancy supporting our clients in achieving sustainable cash savings and service delivery improvements in their commissioning and procurement activities.

4. www.sps-consultancy.co.uk ©SPS Consultancy Services Ltd 2012 Business case development and implementation Evidence based procurement strategies Procurement reviews Board level presentations Change management Spend and opportunity analysis eAuctions delivery Category planning Supplier arbitrage Negotiation programmes Category Management Supplier Relationship Development Make or Buy Driving up Data Standards Contract and Relationship Management Interpreting Expenditure Data Our Services Strategy and Planning Cashable Savings Delivery Strategic Skills Transfer

5. www.sps-consultancy.co.uk ©SPS Consultancy Services Ltd 2012 Our Consulting Ethos Leading edge thinking, innovation and action – White Papers / boardroom briefings Providing publicly available educational and advisory services on our Website at no cost Leaving a lasting impression of professionalism, trustworthiness and reliability Ethical Charter – improving the image of consultancy through fixed price bids, sharing outcomes with other clients and not charging for material already paid for by others Skills and knowledge transfer to our clients

6. www.sps-consultancy.co.uk ©SPS Consultancy Services Ltd 2012 Over 50 clients since our formation – many of them providing repeat business Mixture of public and private clients but predominantly local government Airbus Coding International Ltd SmartWater CIPS Office Depot L B Enfield Capital One London Councils Hertfordshire CC Procurement Agency for Essex Improvement East National e-Procurement Project (NePP) Kent CC Shropshire CC Essex CC Dacorum DC Stirling Council Clackmannanshire Council Companies House Bridgend CBC St Andrew’s Hospital L B Hammersmith & Fulham L B Hackney / Netstore Buckinghamshire CC

7. www.sps-consultancy.co.uk ©SPS Consultancy Services Ltd 2012 Informing the debate on Procurement in the Public Sector

8. www.sps-consultancy.co.uk ©SPS Consultancy Services Ltd 2012 Knowledge sharing and best practice guidance

9. www.sps-consultancy.co.uk ©SPS Consultancy Services Ltd 2012 Some Major Achievements Setting up the Procurement Agency for Essex and providing its first Director (2003/4) Setting up the London Centre of Excellence (2004/5) and providing its Director (2005 to 2008) Developing and establishing ProClass across English local government (2006) Running the first multi-authority ICT e-Auction in London (2007) making a £3.8m saving Introducing Supplier Relationship Development to local Government (2009-11) Providing the first business case for client purchasing cards in Adult Social Care at Kent County Council (2004)

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