DCSF Educational Procurement Centre EPC School Procurement Improvement Programme Save Money Helping

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DCSF Educational Procurement Centre (EPC)School
Procurement Improvement ProgrammeSave Money
Helping School Spend go Further. 

• Claire Dicks Pauline Sheey
• Assistant Director (Technology Delivery)
  EPC Title

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Key Issues for SchoolsBased on feedback and
consultation

• Trust and consistency in advice and support
  provided
• The need for more focused support from the
  Department
• Clarity, succinctness and easy to use
  information, guidance and tools
• Reducing initiative overload
• Costs and resource pressure resulting from any
  change
• Keeping their autonomous status.

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DCSF Educational Procurement Centre

• Wrap around services for schools
• Local Centres (Local EPC)
• OPEN suite of products
• Strategic Category Management
• Professional Development

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DCSF Educational Procurement CentreVision

• To build and deliver a sustainable procurement
  infrastructure for schools, enabling them to
  obtain the best from their commercial
  environment

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Professional Development

• Top 10 tips for Schools
• Top 10 tips for Governors
• Online Procurement Guidance
• Teachers TV series Save Money
• Mini Guide to Procurement
• Procurement Driving Licence
• Thin Level training with CIPS
• NCSL CSBM / DSBM procurement training

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The Programmes

• Based on the Troubleshooter Format
• Presenter and a Procurement Expert
• Find both good and bad practice
• Be a positive experience for schools
• Help them to achieve savings (Gershon Agenda)
• Cover a wide range of topics
• Both Secondary and Primary Schools

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Photocopiers - Leasing

• Video from the Save Money series on leasing was
  shown here. Please visit www.dcsf.gov.uk/epc to
  view the videos.

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Topics covered savings found

• Networking copiers and printers
• Leasing
• Purchase cards
• E-procurement
• Cashless catering
• Contract Management

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Feedback

• Vincent M John Supply Management Magazine
• Its strength lies in its friendly and balanced
  presentation, using good illustrations to
  introduce some salient elements of effective
  purchasing
• It is probably the tool that each manager,
  administrator and stakeholder needs to appreciate
  and be committed to implementing the value for
  money process 4 out of 5 stars.

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Local EPCsPurpose and objectives

• To deliver efficiency gains by improving
  procurement capability
• To develop working relationships, taking a
  strategic view of commercial arrangements
• To build commercial skills through training and
  professional guidance
• To identify opportunities for improved
  procurement by
• managing demand and commercial risk across the
  school sector
• leading regional / national / DCSF category
  management initiatives
• facilitating collaboration and joint working
• provide the tools to deliver efficiencies
• To deliver the sustainable procurement agenda for
  schools
• To improve knowledge management and information
  sharing

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EPC Menu of services

• Procurement Health Check
• Direct advice from a Schools Procurement Partner
• Awareness Seminars
• Professional Development
• On line Guidance
• E-communities tool
• OPEN e-procurement solution for schools

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OPEN The Marketplace for SchoolsVision

• Providing schools with easy access to their
  local, regional and national suppliers.

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OPEN The Marketplace for SchoolsConnecting the
Systems
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Description more information
Quantity
Supplier
Price
Item Picture
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OPEN The Marketplace for SchoolsComparison
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OPEN The Marketplace for SchoolsFeedback from
the 2008 Education Show

• It gives us a small primary school the same
  buying power as a large secondary school
• Were very interested in cost and time savings
  it will save time flicking through catalogues
  which takes up too much time

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OPEN Suite of Products

• Release 2 includes
• Request for Quotation (RFQ)
• Free text ordering
• FMS automatic purchase order delivery
• OPEN Communities
• Linked to OPEN

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How will Schools benefit from this Programme?
School
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How Can Schools access this Programme?

• By contacting the EPC Schools Procurement Partner
  once the OPEN and the EPC service is rolled out
  in your Authority
• By being referred by the Value for Money Unit
  (VFM)

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VFM
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Thank you
For further information www.dcsf.gov.uk/epc
epc.enquiries_at_dcsf.gsi.gov.uk