Our Services

For suppliers to the public sector

Are you a provider of learning and skills or welfare-to-work services, a provider association or a Not for Profit organisation looking to win public contracts or develop your existing business? If so, then we can bring a wide and varied experience to support you in taking your organisation forward and achieving your vision for the future. Our principle competencies are in the following areas:

1. Business development, growth and diversification in public sector markets

Working with you and your Team to grow your business into new public sector markets
To lessen dependence on one or a small number of public sector customers
The identification of core corporate skills and competences and translating these into new market opportunities markets
Targeting and growing business opportunities in new and related public sector markets

2. Tender management and project set-up

Translating potential new markets into tangible tender opportunities and managing the development and submission of the tender
Support of project implementation; post-tender negotiations, staff recruitment; premises; target and goal setting; stakeholder mapping, project management and operational set up

3. International Development in public sector markets

Developing strategies for exploiting overseas market opportunities
Identifying and reviewing overseas market including analysis of opportunity and set-up costs
Managing large scale overseas tender opportunities and support in project implementation
Introduction to French market for UK organisations and UK market for French organisations

We can run workshops for you and your Team and train your staff to ensure that they develop and retain the required competencies, help you recruit competent tender writing and business development staff and insure that you own the outcomes of our work together.

We have direct experience of working with the Learning and Skills Council, Job Centre Plus, European Social Fund, the Regional Development Agencies, Financial Services Authority, Legal Services Commission, the Big Lottery Fund, Local Authorities and more.

Within France we have contact with Unedic/Assedic, ANPE, AFPA, Agefiph, The Conseils Generaux, DGEFP and many more public sector agencies in world of Welfare to Work and skills.

For the public sector, public sector agencies & the third sector

If you work for the Public Sector, a Public Sector Agency or the Third Sector we can help you to do your job more effectively and efficiently in procurement, contract and performance management, supply chain management and capacity building.

We have extensive experience of working both within Public Sector Agencies and with the Public and Third Sectors to really make a difference to the delivery of front line public services.

1. Specification, procurement, contracting, performance management strategies and supplier development and capacity building

Working with you and your Team to develop and implement effective procurement and contract management strategies for the Public and Not for Profit sectors
Working with your organisation to review, consult and implement effective procurement, contract and performance management strategies
Training in procurement, contract management and performance management
Diversifying your supplier base and implementing and managing consortia of suppliers

2. Capacity building

Do you need to review your supplier base, to work with them to meet new challenges, to improve performance, to introduce new suppliers? We have the experience to manage this process and work with you to develop the supplier base you need.

Working with your contractor base to develop their capacity to tender, contract and deliver services for you
Understanding and implementing employer engagement
How to manage and work in a consortia

3. Benchmarking and Best practice

Local, national and International benchmarking of your services
Identification of best practice in your sector and for your service, gap analysis, action planning and tracking