PROACTIS: The City of Cardiff Council Awarded Best Public Sector Procurement Project & Delivers £800k Savings
January 20 2015 - 5:50AM
Business Wire
PROACTIS, a global Spend Control and eProcurement solution
provider, has named the City of Cardiff Council as winners of their
Best Public Sector Procurement Project 2014 for the procurement of
Home to School Passenger Transport services.
The City of Cardiff Council implemented the PROACTIS
Source-to-Contract system in June 2014 to manage all sourcing and
contract management activity, to not only reduce costs, but also to
deploy standardised processes and automation to increase
“transparency, visibility and fairness” amongst the
marketplace.
One of its first major uses was to enable the creation of a
Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) and to run an eAuction programme
for Passenger Transport services. Over 60 local suppliers have
registered and the creation of the DPS allows for suppliers to
apply to join one of the four lots under the DPS at any time. All
home to school transport routes were run through PROACTIS as tender
exercises, resulting in £588k annualised savings*.
“PROACTIS automates our sourcing events from reverse auctions to
complex multi-stage negotiations and enables us to realise the best
value, not just the best price, from our local supply base by
factoring cost, risk, and performance drivers into
decision-making,” said Steve Robinson, Head of Commissioning and
Procurement at City of Cardiff Council. “We have achieved a balance
between making it easy for users to consistently adhere to the
agreed policy and allowing flexibility to handle any complex
project or service-user requirements.”
In addition the City of Cardiff Council is also using PROACTIS
to secure Residential and Nursing packages for older people/mental
health services for older people. Having carefully considered
existing processes and alternative technology providers a project
was launched on PROACTIS mid-August to perform the sourcing task.
Within three months, over 100 providers have been registered on a
Dynamic Approved Provider List (DAPL), 170 opportunities issued to
the market, and resulted in £230k annualised savings*.
“PROACTIS greatly improves the social care experience for staff
by simplifying and automating processes in place,” said Siân
Walker, Director of Health and Social Care at City of Cardiff
Council. “Social workers are released from administrative duties to
concentrate on service delivery. PROACTIS also greatly enhances
communication between staff, providers, clients and families
thereby allowing us to demonstrate greater transparency, visibility
and fairness.”
*Savings calculated by comparing average bids in PROACTIS
received vs. lowest bid (City of Cardiff Council contribution).
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About PROACTIS
PROACTIS is a global provider of Spend Control and eProcurement
solutions that help hundreds of organisations around the world to
better control expenditure on all goods and services.
- Source-to-Contract: Increase
procurement capacity to create value and reduce risk
- Purchase-to-Pay: Improve control
and visibility of organisation-wide spend
- Supplier Commerce: Streamline
supplier interaction and collaboration
Find out more at proactis.com.
PROACTISSimon Dadswell+44 (0)1937 545
070simon.dadswell@proactis.com
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