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Lot 6 - Procurement & Supply Chain

Buyer: London Borough of Southwark →

BuyerLondon Borough of Southwark
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published8 Dec 2025

What is being bought

The London Borough of Southwark has awarded a contract for a comprehensive Procurement and Third Party Spend Review. The project aims to enhance procurement effectiveness, optimise external spend, and strengthen contract and supplier management practices in line with the Procurement Act 2023 and the Council’s Southwark 2030 vision. The review covers all categories of third party spend, assessing supplier relationships, benchmarking procurement practices against best in class standards, and evaluating governance frameworks and the contract lifecycle. The Supplier will deliver data driven insights and actionable recommendations to inform a redesigned procurement and commissioning operating model. Expected outcomes include: • Full visibility and categorisation of third party spend through development of the contract register. • Identification, validation and prioritisation of at least ten high impact cost saving opportunities. • A baseline and benchmark of the procurement lifecycle, with proposals for a redesigned operating model aligned to the Council’s ERP replacement programme Southwark360. • Benchmarking organisational capability and workforce capacity against the National Procurement Policy Statement. • Strengthened contract management and provider performance to ensure value for money, improve accountability and reduce risk. The Supplier will provide practical deliverables including inception and progress reports, stakeholder engagement summaries, spend analysis dashboards, business cases, toolkits and a final strategic report consolidating findings and recommendations. The contract runs from 6 October 2025 to 6 March 2026 and has been awarded under Lot 6 of the CCS RM6187 Management Consultancy Framework.

Delivery location

UKI44

Categories

Financial management consultancy services 79412000Procurement consultancy services 79418000Business and management consultancy and related services 79400000

Lot details

Lot 1

The London Borough of Southwark has awarded a contract for the provision of a comprehensive Procurement and Third-Party Spend Review under the Crown Commercial Service RM6187 Management Consultancy Framework 3, Lot 6. The Council faces significant financial pressures and increasing service demands, and requires a structured, independent review to identify cost-saving opportunities, enhance spend visibility, and strengthen procurement and contract management. The successful supplier, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), will deliver an evidence-based review of procurement activity, supplier relationships, and third-party spend, producing actionable recommendations aligned with Southwark’s strategic objectives and the Procurement Act 2023. The scope of services includes: Conducting a comprehensive analysis of the Council’s third-party spend to establish full visibility and categorisation across all services. Reviewing supplier relationships, contract efficiency, and off-contract spend to identify inefficiencies, risks, and opportunities. Identifying, validating, and prioritising at least ten high-impact cost-saving opportunities, each supported by business cases, risk assessments, and implementation recommendations. Benchmarking the Council’s procurement and commissioning operating model, governance structures, and processes against best practice and public sector standards, including alignment with the Southwark 360 ERP replacement programme. Assessing procurement and contract management capability and workforce capacity in line with the National Procurement Policy Statement (NPPS). Reviewing contract management practices, supplier performance, and provider accountability to strengthen value-for-money and reduce risk. Delivering practical outputs such as spend dashboards, savings registers, governance assessments, toolkits, and a final strategic report to support sustainable improvement. Key deliverables include: An inception report and detailed project plan. Spend analysis reports with interactive dashboards. A prioritised set of savings opportunities with full business cases. A redesigned procurement and commissioning operating model with governance and capability recommendations. A contract and supplier management review with improvement actions. A final consolidated report with benchmarking data, findings, and a phased implementation roadmap. The contract is valued at £173,950.00 and will run from 06 October 2025 to 06 March 2026. This is a fixed-term arrangement with no option to extend. The supplier will be required to work closely with Council stakeholders, provide regular progress updates, and ensure knowledge transfer to support long-term improvements.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality — 50
Social Value Committment — 10
price — 40

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Financial management consultancy services, Procurement consultancy servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Financial management consultancy services (79412000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 795,0733 median · 32.4 average (1,535 of 5,073 with a bid count)2.9 average (1,722 of 5,073 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer1Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKI44251 median · 1.3 average (8 of 25 with a bid count)1 average (9 of 25 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Contracts

Lot 6 - Procurement & Supply Chain

Statusactive
Value£173,950

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05f0ea
Latest release ID080680-2025
Latest release timestampMon Dec 08 2025 14:56:30 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsRestricted procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
8 Dec 2025award, contract080680-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
8 Dec 2025 · 080680-2025 · award, contract
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