Procurement

At KFM, we understand that the effective management of procurement is essential to an organisation’s success and we can play a key role in getting you there.   We can provide an end-to-end procurement and supply chain service, or deliver specific procurement and commercial projects tailored to your needs. 

Working in collaboration with our customers, we deliver on current needs, help you to plan and identify future requirements. To achieve this, our team of professionals combine expertise in 

• data analysis – enabling you to benefit from data driven decisions

• strategic procurement and commercial expertise – providing you with commercial and market advantages, maximising capital and revenue opportunities offering you full flexibility

• technology and automation - enabling efficiency and digital health solutions

• commercial pipeline planning, tendering, and contract and supplier management – practicing value based procurement for the entire procurement lifecycle, ensuring the best outcome for the right price

• sustainability and diversity at our core – helping you to decommission and support delivery of your net zero strategy and equalities, diversity and inclusion objectives

• governance & assurance of compliance with regulatory requirements and quality standard

We are also able to provide our services across a range of categories such as clinical consumables, medical equipment, construction, hard and soft facilities management, corporate services, and ICT.

Strategy Development & Pipeline Planning

Drawing on our expertise, we develop robust category strategies that consider what’s needed now and in the future.  This enables us to agree a pipeline of activities and initiatives to focus on that working in partnership with our customers, we can deliver on.   

Tendering

We provide a fully managed tender process from direct award to a further competition, including:

• Working in partnership to develop an outcome based specification centred on your needs

• Developing and publishing the Invitation to Tender (ITT)

• Managing clarification questions

• Distributing tender responses for evaluation

• Leading the consensus meeting of individual evaluations

• Finalising and awarding the contract for signature

Contract & Supplier Management

Recognising that one size doesn’t fit all, we take a proportionate view on contract and supplier management, based on the criticality of the product or service and the extent to which the contract will add value.  Working alongside our customers, we manage all contract administration and ensure the contract performs in line with expectations and the required standard of performance.  

Through these services we generate value for our customers commercially through process efficiencies and cost improvements, whilst delivering outcomes that are sustainable and have a positive impact on social value.

Operational Purchasing Support

We are experts in managing the complete purchase to pay process and our fully managed service includes access to specialists in inventory and catalogue data management.  

Commercial Value

Working with our customers, we are focused on identifying commercial improvements and efficiencies that positively impact the bottom line. This saves our customers money and enables them to use this commercial benefit to enhance or expand on what they do best.  

Sustainability & Social Value 

We are committed to working with our customers to achieve their sustainability and social value objectives, which are key drivers throughout our procurement processes.