The responsibility of the public sector to deliver effective procurement practices has never been greater.

While many NHS, local government and educational bodies have already created significant savings central government continues to seek year-on-year efficiency gains to reduce costs further. The 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review, which set out public sector spending plans from 2008 to 2011, requires 3% to be saved annually to release money to frontline services.

Inevitably this becomes more difficult once the ‘easy wins’ have been captured; and, in our experience, many public sector organisations lack the resources and experience in-house to identify and capture all the savings available to them.

Our experience
Nelson La Rochelle has considerable experience of cost reduction in the public sector. We regularly work with NHS, local government and/or educational clients helping them to identify and capture real savings. We are therefore familiar with European regulations governing procurement in the sector together with related OJEU directives.

Recent examples of clients include Warwick District Council and the Basingstoke & North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust. We were able to save the latter up to 49% in several categories of expenditure. We did so on a genuine and sustainable basis and with minimal disruption to its day-to-day operations.

"I strongly recommend Nelson to any organisation looking to reduce its costs on a real basis "

Tammie Purdue – head of purchasing and supplies
Basingstoke & North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust