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By Ashley Cox
With the ability to provide education institutions with one-off tailored tendering help, CPC's On Demand team takes on more than 300 projects each year, catered to the needs of the institution. Here's how On Demand can help you in 2025...
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.
Leading the way for CPC's dedicated On Demand team is Head of On Demand Services, Jonathan Whittle, whose 35+ year professional career has encompassed senior roles at The Lowry, Stockport Council and the Royal Northern College of Music.
A tenured catering specialist, Jonathan's vast experience in this particular field makes a considerable asset for UK education institutions looking to CPC for On Demand support with their on-site meal provisions, allowing schools, academies, colleges and universities to tackle an integral but often complex category with confidence, having his professional support on side.
With successes in hospitality management/delivery, Jonathan has developed CPC's catering tendering function since joining our organisation in 2019 and has completed in excess of 400 catering tenders, for a variety of On Demand service users, overseeing the continuation of catering procurement as one of CPC On Demand's most prominent and primary pillars.
Bringing a history of food quality improvement and cost reduction to the table, Jonathan's long-nurtured understanding of the catering sector combines with a myriad of professional skills and knowledge of tender process, making him a choice consultant to work with on your catering-specific tenders. Contact Jonathan to explore how he could assist you... it's his bread and butter!
As well as catering expertise, CPC On Demand can boast a prominent cleaning tender support service, with the ability to help educational establishments around the British Isles acquire improved building cleaning options. CPC can drive money savings, as well as steering you from poor performing services to more effective and satisfying solutions, while we can likewise help to facilitate improvements in customer-contractor relations. Don't languish in procurement pain - let On Demand take the strain.
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 around the UK, staff that are working specifically on ad-hoc 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.
Read more about CPC On Demand and adjacent procurement consultancy services from Crescent Purchasing Consortium.