Collaborative tender

Kent Buying Consortium established a joint cash collection contract from offices and from car park machines on behalf of all Kent councils.

The South East Business portal is being used to help collaborative working by recording details allowing procurement exercises to be combined and to use the documents where others have let similar contracts.

Aggregated buying power has generated greater interest from the marketplace. The ability to join at any time allows existing contracts to expire or move from in-house to outsource provision.

Benefits

• Contract performance maintained by pressure on the contractor knowing that failure at one location could jeopardise ability to retain business.
• Larger value long-term contract encourages investment in the service and improvement over time.
• 20% saving on sums previously paid for similar services. Other councils have used the contract specification for tendering collaboratively.

Find out more

Visit the South East Business portal for more information about the project.