Welcome to
Transformative
Procurement
for Multi Academy Trusts
We know Multi Academy Trusts face unique challenges when it comes to procurement
– budget constraints, managing suppliers and the need for compliance, to name a few.
Our mission is simple: to help you to overcome these challenges and achieve your educational goals.
With our expertise, we’ll help you strategically leverage procurement to drive real change and enhance student outcomes.
What is Transformative Procurement?
Transformative procurement goes beyond traditional purchasing practices.
It’s about leveraging procurement processes to drive positive change and achieve broader organisational goals.
By embracing transformative procurement, MATs can
enhance efficiency, promote sustainability, foster innovation
and ultimately, improve educational outcomes for students.
Why choose Transformative Procurement for your MAT?
Cost Efficiency
Social Value
Sustainability
Innovation
How Education Buying can help transform your procurement
We specialise in supporting MATs on their journey towards transformative procurement excellence.
Our team of experts offers solutions and guidance to help you:
- Develop procurement strategies aligned with your MAT's objectives and values.
- Identify opportunities for cost savings and efficiency improvements.
- Enhance supplier relationships and foster collaboration.
- Integrate social value and sustainability into your procurement processes.
- Navigate complex procurement regulations and compliance requirements.
Get Transformative Procurement
Starting at £5,300/month
Let’s discuss your MAT’s procurement practices so we can learn more about you and how we can support your transformative procurement journey.
Special Offer.
Put us to the test.Procurement Maturity Assessment for free.
If you take out a 3-month subscription or longer, we'll provide the Procurement Maturity assessment for free.
Rapid
£5,300/month
Choose one service per month
Procurement maturity assessment
Our comprehensive Procurement Maturity Assessment is a detailed twelve point review of your MAT’s procurement function to gauge its effectiveness, efficiency, and overall maturity level in managing its purchasing processes, benchmarked with best practice procurement. The assessment focuses on both the strategic and operational elements of procurement from procurement strategy, policy, process, to operating model, competency and practice.
Deliverables
A full maturity report that benchmarks the performance of your procurement against four levels of maturity identifying strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement.
Spend Analysis
A Spend Analysis is a great way of obtaining ‘spend visibility’, which is the first step to gaining better control of your MAT’s procurement. The spend analysis process takes historical expenditure data to identify patterns, trends, and areas of potential improvement and provides a roadmap for better procurement, risk reduction and savings opportunities.
Deliverables
A comprehensive spend analysis report, by category area. It offers insights, enabling the creation of objectives for growth in procurement maturity. This analysis fuels the enhancement of procurement strategy, efficiency, cost savings, and the consolidation of suppliers.
Procurement Strategy
An important stage in procurement maturity, a bespoke Procurement Strategy aligned with your MAT’s objectives that sets out a roadmap, covering all key areas of best practice procurement.
Deliverables
A fully drafted and board ready Procurement Strategy with associated action plan.
Policies and Procedures
An important step in achieving better procurement control and cost/risk management, our best practice Procurement Policy and Procedures are bespoke to your MAT. Often an outcome of the Procurement Strategy, the Procurement Policy provides you with the tools necessary to improve procurement compliance, best practice and improved governance.
Deliverables
A bespoke Procurement Policy, associated procurement processes and suite of procurement templates aligned with the policy. Delivering better outcomes relating to savings, efficiencies and colleagues who are clear on the process.
Contract Management: contracts register
Implementing effective contract management systems using a contract register.
Deliverables
Streamlines negotiations, oversees contract lifecycles and monitors compliance to mitigate risks.
Sustainable Procurement
An initial assessment based on your existing procurement policies, strategies and templates to identify opportunities for specific improvements in establishing better sustainable procurement practices.
Deliverables
A comprehensive report with recommendations, benchmarking your MAT’s sustainable procurement practices against best practice and highlighting opportunities and solutions for improvement. Aligned with corporate social responsibility (CSR) and Economic Social Governance (ESG) goals and regulatory requirements.
Procurement Training
Forming part of the roll out of your new Procurement Strategy and/or Policy or simply as a refresher, our Procurement Training covers a wide range of procurement best practice topics.
Deliverables
Delivered via our CIPs-qualified professionals either remotely or on site to individual or groups.
You also receive free of charge:
- Monthly discovery calls with Procurement Specialist
- Monthly reporting and process tracking
- 3 months free access to Contract Register
Additional services available à la carte.
Boosted
£7,999/month
Choose two services per month
Procurement maturity assessment
Our comprehensive Procurement Maturity Assessment is a detailed twelve point review of your MAT’s procurement function to gauge its effectiveness, efficiency, and overall maturity level in managing its purchasing processes, benchmarked with best practice procurement. The assessment focuses on both the strategic and operational elements of procurement from procurement strategy, policy, process, to operating model, competency and practice.
Deliverables
A full maturity report that benchmarks the performance of your procurement against four levels of maturity identifying strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement.
Spend Analysis
A Spend Analysis is a great way of obtaining ‘spend visibility’, which is the first step to gaining better control of your MAT’s procurement. The spend analysis process takes historical expenditure data to identify patterns, trends, and areas of potential improvement and provides a roadmap for better procurement, risk reduction and savings opportunities.
Deliverables
A comprehensive spend analysis report, by category area. It offers insights, enabling the creation of objectives for growth in procurement maturity. This analysis fuels the enhancement of procurement strategy, efficiency, cost savings, and the consolidation of suppliers.
Procurement Strategy
An important stage in procurement maturity, a bespoke Procurement Strategy aligned with your MAT’s objectives that sets out a roadmap, covering all key areas of best practice procurement.
Deliverables
A fully drafted and board ready Procurement Strategy with associated action plan.
Policies and Procedures
An important step in achieving better procurement control and cost/risk management, our best practice Procurement Policy and Procedures are bespoke to your MAT. Often an outcome of the Procurement Strategy, the Procurement Policy provides you with the tools necessary to improve procurement compliance, best practice and improved governance.
Deliverables
A bespoke Procurement Policy, associated procurement processes and suite of procurement templates aligned with the policy. Delivering better outcomes relating to savings, efficiencies and colleagues who are clear on the process.
Contract Management: contracts register
Implementing effective contract management systems using a contract register.
Deliverables
Streamlines negotiations, oversees contract lifecycles and monitors compliance to mitigate risks.
Sustainable Procurement
An initial assessment based on your existing procurement policies, strategies and templates to identify opportunities for specific improvements in establishing better sustainable procurement practices.
Deliverables
A comprehensive report with recommendations, benchmarking your MAT’s sustainable procurement practices against best practice and highlighting opportunities and solutions for improvement. Aligned with corporate social responsibility (CSR) and Economic Social Governance (ESG) goals and regulatory requirements.
Procurement Training
Forming part of the roll out of your new Procurement Strategy and/or Policy or simply as a refresher, our Procurement Training covers a wide range of procurement best practice topics.
Deliverables
Delivered via our CIPs-qualified professionals either remotely or on site to individual or groups.
You also receive free of charge:
- Monthly discovery calls with Procurement Specialist
- Monthly reporting and process tracking
- 12 months free access to Contract Register
- Procurement Templates
- Board-ready reports
Additional services available à la carte.
