Commercial & Procurement Support offers impartial guidance to ensure bids are affordable, achievable, and aligned with policing requirements, promoting fair and effective procurement practices.
How it works
Our Commercial & Procurement Support provide ethical, impartial guidance for both buyers and suppliers within policing. The service helps craft and evaluate bids, review documentation and offer expert advice.
We support forces in securing opportunities for funding, while achieving value-for-money solutions. We also assist suppliers in presenting their offerings clearly and competitively. This approach strengthens trust, transparency, and efficiency in the procurement process to create a vibrant, competitive, open marketplace.
Benefits
- Promotes fairness and transparency in procurement.
- Improves bid/proposal quality and competitiveness for suppliers.
- Supports value-for-money decisions for policing.
- Improves opportunity for successful funding applications for policing.
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What we need
- Bid/funding documentation and supporting materials.
- Evaluation criteria and scoring frameworks.
- Relevant compliance standards.
- Access to key stakeholders for clarification.
- Agreement on timelines and scope.
What you get
- Reviewed bids/funding applications with recommendations for improvement.
- Ethical guidance reports and compliance checks.
- Advice on crafting clear, competitive proposals.
- Support for evaluation and decision-making.
- Insights to improve future outcomes.
Use cases
A small UK business struggles to win policing contracts and seeks our support. Through our Commercial & Procurement Support service, we review historic bids, identify gaps, and advise on how to better articulate value in terms policing understands. The improved bid increases competitiveness and alignment with policing needs.
Policing seek public funding, however have been unsuccessful in the past. They ask for our Commercial & Procurement Support to review and redraft a funding application, taking into account experience gained from cross-sector contacts. The funding bid is successful and enables existing funding to be stretched further and exciting new innovations to be explored.
