Commercial Discovery

Join the group of schools that have achieved nearly £5m in savings whilst improving social and sustainable impact.

Our Approach

Our free Commercial Discovery report will support your Trust to reduce spend, support informed decision making and improve your social and sustainable impact.

Commercial opportunities are identified through the analysis of spend data, contracts, working and operational practices. Responses to questions are scored against spend control, governance and compliance, collaboration and social value. The insights helps us help us better understand how you make your purchasing decisions and highlight your strengths, weaknesses and opportunities.

The report contains a list of recommendations that align with best practice guidance signposted by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal’s. They form a baseline and roadmap of activity, savings and efficiencies for social impact.

Benefits

Supporting your Plan for Positive Change

Immediate Cost
Reductions

Improved
Efficiency

Use the Commercial Discovery report as a clear roadmap of tangible actions to drive sustainability through all your activity.

Insights will help you to improve how you manage suppliers, and increase your social value impact.

We will work with you to outline a realistic timeline for implementing your agreed changes, defining timeframes to support with tracking progress.

Spend pattern analysis forms our evidence-based action summary. Here we pinpoint suggestions for immediate changes, such as ways to reduce costs.

All savings can be repurposed back into Education to directly benefit the children and the Trust. One of our customers achieved savings equivalent to two teachers salaries.

Your Trust can start to improve efficiency and reduce spend, whilst aligning with social value and sustainability goals.

The report insights will help you streamline your processes. If there are any gaps in your current processes, they will be flagged.

Case Studies

Transforming School IT for Better Learning and Sustainability

Sustainable and cost-effective school uniform

Strategic PPM amidst budget constraints

Bridging gaps and driving Action in MATs through our Sustainable Schools assessment

Charlotte Rudd

Head of Procurement

Our FREE Commercial Discovery can save you money and improve your social impact.

Commercial opportunities will be identified through the analysis of spend data, contracts, working and operational practices to identify areas for improvement.

Our team of procurement experts will help you act on the report recommendations, so you can start saving money and improving your social value.

For more information speak to Charlotte Rudd on 0800 917 7884 or e-mail SustainabilityServices@value-match.co.uk – alternatively fill in the form below to request a call back.

The team have been a great help and support to us in getting a complex procurement specified, documented and out to market. Their knowledge and experience, in particular pointing out the pitfalls and market sensitivity in the area we were looking to procure from, was invaluable. We are very pleased with the outcome and achieved our objectives with the support of the team every step of the way. A great service and no hesitation in recommending ECS to anyone considering using them.

Fran DifrancoDirector of Operational Services

We are passionate about achieving social value for our organisation, ensuring young people we serve, and our employees are really getting the best and now our procurement supports this. It has been a fantastic year, thank you to Lindsay, Matt and Emily for their support.

Kim HallDirector of Estates and Sustainability

One of the appeals [of on-site retained support] was that there is a broader team and their experience, involvement and knowledge in this area has been really impressive. We felt like they were part of our team, making the process cohesive and remarkably straightforward. We already had a commercial offer from the incumbent catering provider but to be compliant in the public sector we had to go through the tender process. We had been with the previous company for seven years but there comes a point when you have to demonstrate fairness, transparency, to prove the contract is competitive - and that you are obtaining value for money.

Steve HaighDirector of Finance & Operations

Just a term into their relationship with Value Match, Multi Academy Trust, Pele Trust, are already seeing significant savings and impact Impressed with the support of our business partner, Daniel embedded himself into the team well. "His and Lindsay's [the Value Match team] output has made a real difference... they bring a level of expertise, and capacity, that we haven't previously had in the Trust. They are flexible and responsive and have already taken on additional work - reviewing contracts, renegotiated with new suppliers and helped us exit the old contract. We initially signed up for 6 months however already extended that to 12 as we can see that we will recover the investment over that period of time.

Claire LeightleyChief Operating Officer

The knowledge and expertise of Value Match has meant we have saved time and money with our procurement. We’ve found the right solution and been able to work on other major projects that otherwise wouldn’t have been doable. Thanks to Cassim, Kelly and Matt for all of their hard work and support.

Damien Johnson IT Manager