ProClass 

Case Studies

PAE Summary

The Procurement Agency for Essex (PAE) had made great improvements in their expenditure information, but it still had limitations. The difficulty was knowing what had been purchased in a useful management information format, rather than how much was spent with each supplier. What was needed was improved spend information to provide collaboration and comparison opportunities which would lead to greater savings. Mapping expenditure by ProClass has provided that data.

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SECE Summary

The South East Business Portal (SEBP) has been dveloped by software supplier Due North, to help local suppliers register with Improvement & Efficiency South East (IESE, formerly SECE), in conjunction with the 74 local authorities in the region.

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LCE Case Study

The third party, influenceable spend of London local government is more than £9.4bn a year. Nearly 60% of this is delivered by 1,000 suppliers. In 2005, the London Centre of Excellence (LCE) adopted the Contracts Register Service (CRS), pioneered the previous year by the Procurement Agency for Essex (PAE). ProClass was chosen to provide the high-level classification needed for major contracts and will allow for dynamic integration into the LCE’s Online Expenditure Analysis (OEA) tool.

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ProClass / Thompson Comparison

A paper comparing the pros and cons of the ProClass and Thompson classifications.

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