Local Government Procurement

Tight financial constraints leave local authorities with a difficult balancing act between ensuring good quality public services and delivering efficiency gains (taken as cashable savings or resources redeployed to frontline services). In addition, policy reform and changes in public service delivery require increasing reliance on strategic partnerships and engagement with community organisations to design and deliver public services.

PROACTIS works with a large number of unitary and metropolitan authorities and local district councils to help transform their procurement operations, improve efficiencies and deliver cash releasing savings. PROACTIS is proven to enhance procurement capacity and management of key supply markets by applying best-practice tools and techniques that ensure value for money and compliance.

Unitary and metropolitan authorities and local district council customers include: Bristol City Council, Leeds City Council, City of London, North Yorkshire County Council, Scottish Borders Council and a number of shared services platforms.

Challenges for Local Government

Some of the challenges our solutions help to address include:

Expenditure analysis
Automating procurement processes
Better commissioning of services
Addressing purchasing policy adherence
Engagement with the local supply base
Contract regulations and compliance
Procurement for large, complex services
Reducing costs and paper in Accounts Payable
Sustainable procurement

PROACTIS Spend Control & eProcurement

PROACTIS spend control and eProcurement solutions help Finance and Procurement professionals leverage finite resources to meet the policy and commercial requirements of best value, ultimately redirecting time and money back to the core task of providing frontline, citizen-focused services: