Supporting transformation with professional services through NEPRO .
CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION
Bloom : opening up procurement .
Supporting transformation with professional services through NEPRO .
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As delivery partner for NEPRO , the neutral vendor approach to professional services since 2015 , Bloom has created a community . It includes public sector buyers and high-quality suppliers to help the public sector achieve better outcomes from their professional services procurement . As a managed service provider , Bloom assures delivery and adds value as experts in professional services projects , delivering better outcomes much faster than traditional routes .
City of London Corporation first came to us with a challenge ; help transform their approach to professional services . Our first projects together centered on supporting ongoing evolution in business change and strategy necessary to deliver the organisation ’ s vision of a vibrant and thriving City , within a globally-successful UK . Bloom was able to assist by widening the potential pool of suppliers to bid and provided a single source of guidance and management information on spend .
Bloom is working with around 200 public sector buying organisations and over 4,000 suppliers to achieve savings of between 11 % and 19 % on average . Traditional procurement routes can take as much as 100 days to get consultants on site , but Bloom can have consultants in place and ready to deliver in as little as a fifth of that .
Recently , for a children and social care project for Cardiff Council , proposals were received from several suppliers and ready for review within just 10 days . Bloom supports public service delivery faster , reducing unnecessary costs and accelerating benefits for Contracting Authorities and payments to suppliers .
Bloom has been asked to manage over 3,000 projects by around 200 organisations across the public sector and the 19 NEPRO categories . That ’ s more than triple the number 3 years ago , with in excess of £ 170M of professional services being successfully delivered .
11 % to 19 % savings
4,000 +
suppliers in a pre-accredited supplier community
100 %
available accross the public sector
NEPRO , owned by NEPO , was designed to deliver an innovative alternative that remains OJEU compliant . Steven Sinclair , Head of Procurement for NEPO reinforces the success of the approach “ We recognised Contracting Authorities wanted value for money and better control and transparency in the Specialist Professional Services category ; NEPRO delivers all of this plus the peace of mind that the pre-vetted suppliers can be selected and utilized to support social value ambitions ”.
The Bloom supplier community provides access to unlimited choice ; offering the latest innovations . Suppliers are carefully checked before being awarded accreditation , but the process is free and more efficient for suppliers than a traditional e-tender portal or lengthy and repeated PQQs . Suppliers are only charged when they have won and delivered work . they have won and delivered work through them .
AUGUST 2018
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