BlueLight Commercial collaborates with police and blue-light services to transform commercial and procurement activity and capability, delivering savings, efficiencies and enhanced commercial skills.

We are leading the Transforming Public Procurement programme for police and fire, acting as the SPOC for the Cabinet Office.

Contact: capability@bluelight.police.uk

The Transforming Public Procurement programme aims to improve the way public procurement is regulated in order to:
- Create a simpler and more flexible, commercial system that better meets our country’s needs while remaining compliant with our international obligations
- Open up public procurement to new entrants such as small businesses and social enterprises so that they can compete for and win more public contracts
- Embed transparency throughout the commercial lifecycle so that the spending of taxpayers’ money can be properly scrutinised.

We are CIPS, the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply. A global membership organisation driving positive change across our profession. We are the voice and standard, defining and amplifying best practice across all our worlds. As the awarding body for the profession we lead in education and training. Helping professionals advance their ambition. We provide insights, information and tools. Enabling members to develop their own best practice. We help build capability within organisations. Interrogating, troubleshooting and training. Through all our work, we build a community. A global network of professionals powering procurement and supply so our societies can thrive. Join CIPS, for your career, and the profession.

The UK’s largest housing association, we have homes in more than 170 local authorities and a heritage stretching back more than a century. 

We build homes too, through our development arm Latimer.

Our charitable foundation Clarion Futures helps people and communities in what is one of the country’s biggest social investment programmes.

We’re a business for social purpose.

We make every penny count and any surplus we make is reinvested in our mission to provide homes for those who need them most.

We’re building a better future today. 

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CCS plays an important role helping the UK public sector save money when buying common goods and services. We are the biggest public procurement organisation in the UK. We use our commercial expertise to help buyers in central government and across the public and third sectors to purchase everything from locum doctors and laptops to police cars and electricity. The collective purchasing power of our customers, plus our procurement knowledge, means we can get the best commercial deals in the interests of taxpayers.

Delta eSourcing enables efficient, effective and compliant procurement. Utilised by thousands of public sector buyers every day, its Buyer Portal, Tender Manager, Supplier Manager, Contract Manager and eAuctions services can be used independently or else combined to form a comprehensive and effective end-to-end procurement solution. In challenging times, Delta eSourcing delivers transparency, compliance and value for money.

We were founded in 1890 to improve people’s lives and create possibilities for them.

What we’re here for hasn’t changed.

We fulfil our purpose, our social purpose, by providing great homes and services – including care services – to nearly 160,000 customers across the country.

Deliver great service — To be one of the best service providers in the housing and care sectors
Provide great homes — To provide as many high quality homes as possible, and to play a significant part in tackling the country’s housing crisis
Be a great place to work — To be one of the best employers in the country
Be a great business — To be a strong and efficient business that does things well, and that people can trust and rely on

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The Local Government Association (LGA ) is the national membership body for local authorities working on behalf of their member councils to support, promote and improve local government. It is a politically led, cross-party organisation ensuring local government has a strong, credible voice with national government. The LGA aims to influence and set the political agenda on the issues that matter to councils, so they are able to deliver local solutions to national problems.

MTVH provides affordable housing for people living in London, the South East, East Midlands and East of England.

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The MOD is implementing Category Management as an approach to Defence Acquisition. A multi-disciplinary team from across the enterprise are collectively exploiting the opportunities afforded to us through a Category Management approach – identifying Categories locally and scaling up as appropriate. We embrace and embody the ‘One Defence’ mindset, helping our people and teams to drive better capability for the front line, improve working practices and increase value for money. We’re always keen to hear from colleagues and industry partners on your aspirations and experiences with Category Management, so if you have any feedback or questions, please visit our stand.

The National Housing Procurement Association is being established to transform UK housing procurement through collaboration, innovation and sustainability.

Established in 2007, and wholly owned by the NHS, NHS North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) provides collaborative and bespoke procurement solutions to the NHS and other public sector organisations. Through category expertise and harnessing our collective buying power we deliver comprehensive, compliant and innovative procurement solutions which save the NHS money.
Our award-winning procurements include ready to access framework agreements, bespoke project support and free to access agreements.

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NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) provide expert, flexible procurement services that drive best value and best practice, with sustainability and social value built-in:

- Commercial Delivery Partner services, providing tailored commercial and strategic procurement support.
- End-to-end, Enhanced P2P to deliver efficiencies and eliminate costly, time-consuming manual tasks.
- Framework agreements that offer a compliant route to market, with typical savings of up to 15%.
- Carbon Mapping Specialist Services, providing data insights to drive positive change.

To find out more, contact sbs.hello@nhs.net

We’re one of the largest housing providers in the UK with around 80,000 homes across London, the South East, the Isle of Wight and the Midlands, giving over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own.

At Southern Housing we understand the difference safe, secure and affordable homes can make to people’s lives. Whether it's traditional social housing, shared ownership, affordable rent, private market rent, student accommodation, care and support or outright sales, we offer a range of services. Our vision is to create communities where everyone has a safe home in a place where they’re proud to live.

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One of the North West’s largest landlords, Torus is an ambitious and established housing group with deep roots in Liverpool, St Helens and Warrington - and a total footprint encompassing 11 Local Authority areas. 
The Group mission of ‘growing stronger communities’ drives the Group to work together and deliver homes and services for those who need them most.

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Tracker is a market-leading business intelligence solution, delivered by one of Europe’s leading experts in procurement – BiP Solutions. Tracker’s unique suite of precision intelligence, technology, and trend data facilitates businesses to find and win more opportunities in both the public and private sector marketplace. Start winning more business through access to tailored opportunities, competitor insights and market analysis with our cutting-edge end-to-end business intelligence platform. Grow your revenue. Increase your market share. Get a return on your investment.

UKUPC is a partnership between eight UK purchasing consortia who created a formal entity to support collaborative procurement within Higher and Further Education. All eight consortia work together to conduct their procurement activities with the goal of achieving financial and operational efficiencies, as well as sharing knowledge and best practice, supporting each other and their wider procurement community.

The UKUPC mission is to leverage the benefits of collaborative procurement, to work across the UK HE Consortia community to enhance procurement within HE and across their other members, to help deliver savings and efficiencies, and to maximise member benefits, while embedding responsible and ethical procurement, sustainable supply chain management and social value.

By harnessing the power of group purchasing, they are able to save time and money whilst also increasing their teams’ skills and capabilities which in turn benefits their members. By integrating the efforts of their expert teams, they can provide savings, efficiencies and a better service for all of the UKUPC community.

The Welsh Government is the devolved government for Wales. Led by the First Minister, it works across devolved areas that include key areas of public life such as health, education and the environment.

WRAP is one of the globe's leading sustainability charities. Based in the UK, we work with businesses, governments, citizens, and charities to make the planet a healthier, safer place. In Wales, our work includes supporting public bodies to embed sustainable procurement to achieve positive environmental, economic, and social outcomes, and to maximise contributions to Wales’ Well-being Goals.