Flexible Procurement

Our dedicated flexible procurement team can deliver a range of services, from small, short term projects to longer term partnerships. Whether large or small, our service will always begin with our team designing a bespoke procurement package that is tailored to the needs of the member organisation.

Costs are fully transparent and are agreed as part of the project briefing.  We understand the financial pressures facing the public sector and will tailor the package to deliver effectively with the available budget.  

Our flexible procurement team is made up of highly trained procurement professionals with a mix of experience and specialist knowledge who work collaboratively to deliver our members' requirements. 

You will always have a main point of contact to ensure continuity, but you will also have the collective knowledge of the whole team, working on your behalf. 

Our team can deliver services such as strategy development, tendering, further competition, a best practice/compliance review and refresh, along with guidance and support for procurement teams as required. We offer different ways of working, based upon our members' needs. 

For those who know the work they need, but just don’t have the resource or expertise - we can operate independently under our hosted model.

This is where a full tender exercise is handed over to us for completion. Our team works with your stakeholders to: develop all the required documentation, engage the market, conduct evaluations, make recommendations and ultimately award per your standing orders. We can also further assist through mobilisation when required.

For those situations where you don’t know exactly what work will need to be carried out week to week, as you have numerous projects on the go  and just need another person to help out: we can work as an extension of your team doing multiple operations on your behalf each week as required.

We call this our agency model where a member of our team is embedded as part of your procurement function, based on the number of days you need. Our team then takes day-to-day direction from that team's leader across a range of procurement activities.

We also offer a consultancy service providing guidance through document review and collaboration with your team before tenders are issued. Members with developing teams or limited experience in particular areas find this particularly helpful on pieces of work that are complex. We give your team recommendations that are practical and based on best practice experience.

As with all of Scotland Excel’s procurement services, our flexible procurement services are more cost-effective than hiring contractors or employing private sector consultancies. As a non-profit organisation, all surpluses are reinvested to provide value for our members.