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1. Embedding Category Management inSurrey County CouncilNick Richmond-SmithCategory Manager, Children & Young People Procurement TeamAnna KwiatkowskaCategory Specialist, Children & Young People Procurement Team
2. Agenda Surrey County Council – introduction
Procurement Journey
Key Achievements
Category Action Plan – example
Benefits and Challenges
3. Procurement’s remit at Surrey County Council
7. Real-time Spend Data
9. Savings have increased as Category Management has developed
Being externally focused on the market is the key to delivering our increasing savings
Savings have increased as Category Management has developed
Being externally focused on the market is the key to delivering our increasing savings
10. Key Achievements
11. Category Action Plan - example Successful collaboration with the Connexions Service
12. Connexions Category Review KEY DRIVERS AND CHALLENGES:
Improving outcomes for young people
Focus on partnership working
Significant budget pressures
Improving services and achieving efficiency savings
Contracts due to end in March 2011
New integrated youth services strategy
Expectation that commissioning arrangements for Connexions should be more closely aligned with other Youth Services.
13. Category Action Plan Overview
14. Connexions Services - summary and recommendations
15. CAP - Challenges Budget pressures
Benchmarking
Lack of regular provider events
Initial scepticism from the Service
16. CAP - Benefits DIRECT BEEFITS:
Objective research and fresh viewpoints
Better understanding of the service requirements, spend and supplier base
Collaborative working with the Service
Identifying overlaps in the current delivery of Connexions Services
Increased understandig and opportunities of shaping the market
Driving better value from the existing contracts whilst achieving
the NEET target
Savings - £1.1m efficiency savings, £ 800kVfM savings
INDIRECT BENEFIT:
Unexpected recognition of this work by DfE as an exemplar case study