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Data Driven Procurement – Accelerate time to insights with our advanced public sector analytics dashboards

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Market Observatory

The perfect starting point to conduct your analysis, offering a broad range of insights covering all aspects of the public procurement contracting space.

Discover a new level of visibility with the interactive Market Observatory dashboard. Effortlessly navigate through rich public procurement data with purpose, covering contract volumes, suppliers, industry insights, and much more through user-friendly filters.

Market Observatory is your partner for understanding the ever-evolving UK public procurement landscape. With a strong emphasis on trends analysis and aggregation, this comprehensive dashboard consolidates all the intricate moving parts into one accessible platform. It allows you to explore historical public contract data, dissect current trends, and anticipate future market movements. 

Market Observatory enables public sector buyers to decipher market trends and dynamics with ease. Gain the advantage of trend-focused insights to make informed decisions and steer your public procurement strategy with confidence, ultimately driving improved efficiency and value in your procurement activities.

Buyer Explorer

Provides a comprehensive view of the buyers within the UK public procurement. This feature empowers buyers to conduct strategic analysis and enables them to benchmark themselves against other buying organisations.

Buyers can benchmark their procurement practices against other buying organisations. By evaluating their processes, efficiency, and outcomes, buyers gain a clearer understanding of their standing within the market. This positioning aids in identifying areas of improvement and supports implementing strategies that enhance their public procurement activities.

Buyer explorer creates and enhances transparency by allowing buying organisations to view the procurement decisions and processes of different public sector entities. This fosters accountability and trust among the buying community as each organisation’s decisions become visible to one another.

Buyer Explorer serves as a valuable tool to identify fellow buyers within public procurement sourcing similar suppliers, services, and works. This facilitates insights into public contract expiration and renewal dates, fostering prospects for consortia formation and collaborative ventures. This strategic approach enhances negotiation position, ultimately yielding improvements in quality, cost efficiency, or a synergy of both factors.

Supplier Explorer

Unlock insights into the UK supplier landscape for a strategic advantage, supporting optimised decision making, and providing a deep grasp of public procurement trends and key industry suppliers.

Supplier Explorer provides public sector buyers with the necessary contract data to identify capable suppliers who can deliver their public procurement requirements. It offers access to both current and past collaborations, allowing for a comprehensive understanding of the longevity of these relationships. This enables public sector buyers to conduct reliable assessments of a supplier’s track record.

Leveraging a decade’s worth of historical public sector award data, buyers can create detailed profiles of potential suppliers based on their past contract wins. Additionally, they can delve into critical contract details, including weighting cost versus quality, contract durations, sizes, and values. 

Supplier Explorer’s rich data allows public sector buyers to take a proactive approach when evaluating supplier and market availability. Leveraging seven years’ worth of future-contract-end-dates and recurring procurement flags, buyers gain the ability to assess supplier workloads and availability.

This information supports the identification of potential supply chain vulnerabilities in the public sector landscape, helps mitigate risks associated with supplier concentration or geographic restrictions on availability, while also facilitating timely renegotiations when necessary.

Buyers in the public sector now have a strong focus towards maintaining a well-balanced supplier portfolio. Supplier Explorer facilitates the swift identification of SME & VCSE supplying organisations for supporting precise budget allocation in accordance with government targets.

Furthermore, by utilising Supplier Explorer you can access comprehensive supplier location data, aligning your public procurement strategy seamlessly with regional development objectives, thereby fostering local economic growth.

Agreements 360°

Agreements 360 offers public sector buyers a centralised and comprehensive overview of expired, active, and upcoming public procurement agreements in the United Kingdom.

Agreement 360 simplifies the process of accessing critical information encompassing the agreement’s purpose, a breakdown of available lots, the list of eligible suppliers for each agreement and lot, the agreement’s scope, agreement duration, as well as start and end dates.

Enabling buyers to identify which other organisations are actively leveraging agreements. With Agreements 360, buyers within the public sector can harness the opportunity to engage with fellow buying organisations and gain insights into the effectiveness, pricing, quality and suitability of different agreements. This collaborative approach supports buyers to make well-informed decisions that align with their public procurement objectives

By using Agreements 360 public sector buyers can understand the scope and details of upcoming procurement agreements. Having access to this forward looking view supports the planning of purchasing strategies. This leads to strategic budget and resource allocation decision making, and ultimately supports more efficient and cost-effective public procurement outcomes.

Contracts Horizon

Explore and study a decades worth of OCDS public procurement contract data and improve the way you write your contracts.

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) codes can reduce the risk of misunderstandings or misinterpretations in public sector contracts. When a specific CPV code is assigned to a product or service, it provides a precise reference point, reducing the likelihood of errors in the tender specifications.

Contracts Horizon allows public sector buyers to evaluate historic contracts of the same nature and ensure they identify the relevant CPV code(s) to include when drafting public sector contracts.

Use the Contract Horizon Dashboard to examine how other buyers within the public sector have drafted the procurement requirements for their contracts, and acquire valuable insights into the various aspects of public sector contract curation.

Contracts Horizon helps you to identify industry standards, gain a deeper understanding of current best practice – supporting public sector buyers to have more confidence when choosing the language to craft their contracts. 

Armed with a deep understanding of historical public sector contract data and the ability to analyse writing styles, Contract Horizon enables buyers to craft public sector contracts that are comprehensive, well-informed, and therefore more likely to attract and be found by suitable suppliers.

This should lead to larger pools of bidding supplying organisations, making the tendering process more competitive, and ultimately  ensuring better procurement outcomes.

Custom Dashboards

Create outstanding interactive dashboards that tell the story of the data to share with and impress your stakeholders.

Our customisable dashboard solution offers public sector buyers flexibility to create bespoke dashboards tailored to their unique public procurement requirements. Whether you’re focused on specific procurement types or prioritise factors like value and location, our platform ensures you have the ultimate tool to manage your daily procurement activities.

Custom Dashboards provides the freedom to create tailor made dashboards aligned to your in-house style.  Select the specific data fields you want from our comprehensive data lake, choose from various visualisations, charts, graphs and plots, and then curate a layout that is unique to your team.

The public procurement landscape is intricate and constantly evolving. Custom Dashboards offers buyers the ability to create an unlimited number of dashboards to meet your evolving analytics requirements. This level of freedom and customisation guarantees that buyers consistently enjoy the most optimised analytical experience.

Data Dynamics

Search and filter contracting data, then customise your data view and export experience with Data Dynamics - including unlimited downloads.

We offer complete access to all data on our platform – access the raw data underlying our dashboards including UK public sector contracts, public sector agreements, and Companies House information.

With Data Dynamics, public sector buyers can select specific data fields to craft tailored data layouts and store queries that filter our data your way. This enables buyers to create their own data viewing experience to match their unique needs and preferences. Data Dynamics puts customisation and control at your fingertips.

Data Dynamics enables buyers to generate unlimited custom downloads (CSV exports), granting access to all data they require. Say goodbye to limitations and embrace the freedom to extract and utilise public sector contract data as you see fit. We’re excited about the flexibility and limitless possibilities for data-driven insights.

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