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Collaboration?

Explore the benefits of collaboration in public sector catering, such as cost savings, standardized terms, and improved service quality. See how merging organizations and sharing resources enhance efficiency and value for money. Learn about the Collaborative Food Procurement Programme and its aims to achieve better value, sustainability, and quality in food procurement. Discover the impact of collaboration in managing spending, contracts, and consumption in public sector catering. Contact TUCO Purchasing Ltd or Crescent Purchasing Consortium to collaborate and improve food procurement practices.

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Collaboration?

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  1. Collaboration? Is it a crime or a worthy ambition?

  2. Let’s look at public sector catering • Government estimate £2.1 billion spend annually • Combining relevant areas must help improve: • buying power • Standardise terms • Measurement of service

  3. What does collaboration mean? Well in our case working together to encourage best practice in food procurement to achieve the best service and price for all in the public sector

  4. Let’s give you an example, an extreme example but still a good one.

  5. Two well known catering procurement organisations have recently merged to form one organisation to consolidate contracts, increase buying power and present a unified and uniform approach to public sector catering procurement.

  6. TUCO and SNUPI Ltd on the 21st April 2010 agreed to merge. The new structure is two ‘not for profit’ companies

  7. TUCO Organisation Ltd The parent company overseeing: • Training • Conferences • Catering development issues

  8. TUCO Purchasing Ltd The subsidiary company managing the framework agreements HOW?

  9. Sharing resource and technology • Removing duplication of effort • Research markets • Effective dialogue with suppliers • Understanding needs • Category management • Management information / data

  10. Collaboration at this level has: • Created a single Membership of 150 HE institutions • Associate members of 100 FE Colleges • Associate members of 12 Local Authorities • Gradually combining 18 Frameworks agreements • Overseeing £90 million pound of catering spend

  11. Why is collaboration vital? • Saving taxpayer’s money • Public sector are expected to work together • Operational Efficiency Programme (OEP) to make significant savings • 2010/11 – 80% of all procurement channelled through collaborative strategies currently • Aggregation of demand and expertise

  12. Businesses spend more than necessary! • Lack of visibility of what is being bought • Employees buying inappropriate items – often for personal use • Suppliers charging different prices at different locations for the same product Doesn’t some of that apply to us?

  13. Collaborative Food Procurement Programme Identified Public Sector Organisations to work together in their commercial activity: • Buying Food • Catering Services • Kitchen Equipment

  14. Collaborative Food Procurement Programme AIMS • Achieve better value for money • Improved sustainability • Enhance quality

  15. Did you know? • Over 30,000 public sector organisations’ place orders for food every day, including schools and hospitals • One billion meals are served in the public sector each year

  16. Collaboration means we can better see • What is being spent on what • Review and benchmark across sites • Enforce supply contracts • Identify wasteful purchasing and consumption • Control users spending • Prevent theft • Make transaction processing more efficient

  17. How do I collaborate? CONTACT US TUCO Purchasing Ltd or Crescent Purchasing Consortium

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