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By Ashley Cox
Need an expert to seize the wheel and steer your procurement project? Let our Crescent Consultancy team take the strain...
Extending our support of the UK's education sector, Crescent Consultancy acts as a one-stop shop for premium procurement services and solutions, with a mission of taking the pain out of procurement for its clients, via professional consultancy options.
As CPC strives to be the sector’s procurement partner of choice, Crescent Consultancy staff are ready to forge successful partnerships with institutions large and small, tackling a variety of purchasing challenges around the UK, with confidence.
Through our experts found in each region, Crescent Consultancy can provide another set of eyes, an extra pair of hands, or simply the procurement knowledge and knowhow you need, taking on that strain of often complex purchasing projects and steering you towards higher quality, better value outcomes. When every penny is stretched, such results could prove priceless.
If you’re ill-equipped, under resourced, lacking capacity or simply the time to give procurement the attention it needs, Crescent Consultancy can step up and step in, with a professional consultant in your area able to head a managed procurement service.
From one day a week to an everyday presence, a Crescent Consultant can be a trusted advisor to lean on, an extra member of your team or the driving force behind your buying. Just outline what you require and CPC can design you a bespoke package.
From on-site support to off-site/remote assistance, Crescent Consultancy can be the secret weapon in your corner, with our team untangling procurement predicaments for more than two decades, letting education professionals focus on their work.
Able to deliver across numerous fields and categories, Crescent Consultancy’s track record in building cleaning and catering consultancy positions these among its foremost offerings, with its focuses on facilitating savings and improved performance.
Whether reviewing your current provision, connecting you with capable suppliers or making the most of agreements via hands-on contract management, Crescent Consultancy can deliver the high levels of compliance and efficiency expected.
Steering institutions away from poor performing services to more effective and satisfying solutions, Crescent Consultancy can likewise help to facilitate improvements in customer-contractor relations - our team will work to make your life a little easier...
Crescent Consultancy On Demand
With clients able to entrust Crescent Consultancy with multifaceted, longer-term projects, our consultancy wing is moreover able to offer an effective On Demand tender support facility, with more than 300 tendering processes conducted every year.
On Demand is a subsection of CPC's professional procurement consultancy service portfolio, with a specialism in supporting UK education institutions' one-off tendering task requirements (which can span a wide selection of spend categories/areas).
When surveyed, a whopping 97% of our On Demand tender service users from within the education sector said they would recommend this service to others - emphatic approval for the service we have given customers in search of ad-hoc support.
Demand more with Crescent Consultancy
On top of its tendering function, CPC can contract manage any new services procured through On Demand, with the ability to produce a contracts database for relevant data collation, alongside key date monitoring activity and contract review assistance. Meanwhile, our team can work closely with you on your in-house tendering projects as and when required, from drafting initial tender documents and writing relevant specifications to providing supplier feedback letters, award notices, reports and more.
By engaging CPC On Demand, you are able to access professional procurement knowledge and support from colleagues based near you - staff working specifically on ad-hoc purchasing projects, like your own. In addition, CPC's healthy On Demand team capacity can ensure effective contingency in the event of unplanned leave, protecting all-important project delivery timelines.
On top of all this, coming under the CPC umbrella, monies spent via Crescent Consultancy will go towards the Giving Back charitable initiative, which seeks to reinvest in the education sector via grant-based project funding and one-off purchases.
In 2025, Giving Back has focused on the interlocking issues of absenteeism, student wellbeing and the challenges facing SEND pupils, dipping into CPC's surpluses and putting our money where our mouth is, bringing worthy pitched funding ideas to life.
A unique aspect of the overall CPC offer, using Crescent Consultancy can not only unpick your own procurement dilemmas, it can provide key financial support for learners you may never meet, making a difference far beyond the walls of your premises.