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By Ashley Cox
A pillar of CPC and its support of the education sector, Crescent Consultancy serves as a one-stop shop for premium procurement services and solutions, with a target of taking the pain out of procurement for clients.
CPC strives to be the sector’s procurement partner of choice and, with a team of experts dotted around the UK, Crescent Consultancy is ready and able to forge successful partnerships with institutions large and small, tackling their purchasing challenges with confidence, head-on.
Crescent Consultancy can provide another set of eyes, an extra pair of hands, or simply the professional procurement knowledge and knowhow you need, taking on the strain of often complex purchasing projects and steering towards higher quality, better value outcomes.
If you’re ill-equipped or under resourced, lacking the capacity or time to provide procurement matters the attention they truly require, Crescent Consultancy can step up and step in, with a professional consultant in your area able to head its complete managed procurement service.
From one day each week to a constant, everyday presence, our consultants can be used as a trusted advisor to lean on, an additional member of your team or the driving force behind your procurement activities; simply outline what you want and CPC can design 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 instead on their life-changing work in class.
While clients can entrust Crescent Consultancy with more multifaceted, longer-term projects, the organisation also prides itself on offering an effective On Demand tender support facility, with over 300 tendering processes conducted per year, for a variety of learning institutions.
Wielding the ability to deliver across numerous fields and categories, Crescent Consultancy’s track record in building cleaning and catering consultancy positions these core areas among the foremost offerings, with focuses on facilitating financial 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 levels of compliance and efficiency expected for these integral, yet often demanding, requisites.
If you’ve previously made a meal out of things, Crescent Consultancy’s team dedicated solely to catering provisions could be the solution you’re looking for, with knowledge and expertise to support what can be a three-month process for procuring outsourced catering contracts.
In addition to these tentpole services, Crescent Purchasing Consortium is home to a range of adjacent support for schools, academies, colleges and universities, from spend and efficiency reviews that address and demonstrate ROI to professional staff mentoring services and merger support, with the latter addressing strategy, infrastructure, service continuity and more, filling knowledge gaps in your workforce to better equip them, moving forward.
CPC has first-hand experience of such a process of late, having undertaken its own successful TUPE procedure in 2024, carrying employees from the company’s previous subsidiary of Tenet Education Services over into the newly harmonised CPC brand organisation with skill and care.
Enabling you to remain on track with your public procurement compliance responsibilities, CPC operates a tender publication service, while propounding interim procurement services that can act as effective short-term solutions, with flexibility a frontline feature of the assistance on offer.
What’s more, coming under the CPC umbrella, monies spent through 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, as applied for by institutions.
In 2025, Giving Back will focus on the interlocking issues of absenteeism, student wellbeing and the challenges facing SEND pupils, pooling reserves and putting our money where our mouth is, bringing your own pitched funding ideas to life, to the benefit of young people, far and wide.
A unique aspect of the CPC offer, utilising Crescent Consultancy can therefore not only unpick your own procurement dilemmas, it can provide key financial support for learners you might never meet, making a difference far beyond the walls of your own premises.
By engaging the expertise of Crescent Consultancy, you could be initiating a push for value, lower costs and higher calibre results, instigating savings that could pay for the service itself.
Alternatively, the aim might be to put your procurement plans in safe hands, letting qualified, tenured purchasing professionals take the reins, so you can get on with your actual day job!
Whatever the case, Crescent Consultancy has built a 25-year reputation in UK education, successfully servicing this often high-value and high-stakes buying space and developing trusted partnerships, as our expert team endeavoured to take the pain out of procurement.
Get in touch to see how Crescent Consultancy can help do the same for you during 2025.