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 2009 Pre-Budget Report, for example, called upon English higher education to find £915 million of savings over the next three years.

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 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 clients include Warwick District Council and the Basingstoke & North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust. We saved the latter up to 49% in several categories of expenditure. We did so on a genuine and sustainable basis and with minimal disruption. We are currently working for seven other public sector clients.

"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