Services Procurement

We're here to guide you on your Services Procurement journey

Our Services Procurement solution brings visibility, compliance, efficiency and cost savings.

We enable our clients to effectively buy and manage their service engagements through optimisation of their procurement processes, policies, and technology within their overarching talent strategy.

MANAGE THE PROCESS
FACILITATE THE BUY
OUTSOURCE THE CATEGORY

MANAGE THE PROCESS

We are here to guide your SOW bid process. By transitioning the right work to the right resources, our team delivers consistency, increases visibility, and ensures compliance. This reduces risk through managing tactical tasks and frees up your customers’ teams for high-value projects.

Not sure where to start? Transaction management of project record administration through Pontoon is a natural place to start outsourcing your Services Procurement activities. 

Guide the buy

We use a consultative approach to help you with labor category identification to ensure the right channel is engaged to meet your needs.

Cost savings

We negotiate, forecast, and control rates to save on your costs.

Start simple then scale

We simplify the process by off-loading administrative tasks and providing SOW template review and guidance while keeping your process consistent.

Data-driven decisions

We’ve got the data, systems, and capabilities to help you gain greater visibility into your external workforce.

FACILITATE THE BUY

In addition to the features of managing the bid, we provide vendor selection guidance, drive competitive bidding, and manage project scope to avoid scope creep, additional time, and costs.

This means you keep the benefits of managing the process, plus some. 

Increase efficiency

We provide vendor selection guidance and competitive bidding for your projects using our comprehensive library of supplier information and analytics to expedite the approval process. 

Delivery management

We plan, monitor, and execute operational processes to drive consistency and hold your suppliers accountable.

Cost control

With our cost control expertise and negotiation strategy, we ensure that you stay within your budget.

Business intelligence

By leveraging industry benchmarks and category insights, we help you make data-driven buying decisions.

OUTSOURCE THE CATEGORY

Our most complex offering provides execution of an agreed-upon sourcing strategy for human capital throughout the project lifecycle that focuses on category management to reduce risk, ensure compliance and capture enterprise-wide cost savings. 

Outsource the category focuses on portfolio management and executing the right strategy.

Demand planning

We are the category experts, delivering guaranteed control in managing your tasks, costs and schedule.

Strategic sourcing

We find the right suppliers, negotiate SOW terms, and implement a sourcing strategy that fits your business.

Increase profitability

We optimise ROI and improve vendor oversight to maximise your procurement spend.

Trusted partnership

We leverage best business practices and our industry experts to find the best values. The result? A trusted customer-focused partnership formed through their existing MSPs.

Is Services Procurement right for you?

Do you lack visibility, data and insights within your Services Procurement solution?

Is your Services Procurement missing clear milestones and deliverables?

Does it take 3-4 days to compile data and make decisions in your Services Procurement programs?

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Case studies

Take a look at how we have partnered with our clients to create solutions for their contingent workforce.

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Services Procurement
Fri 19th Nov 8:57 pm
How we centralised a customer’s supply chain to save on costs
Our customer, a French life sciences company, needed to identify uncontrolled rogue spend. To improve visibility and regain control, the Pontoon team designed a multi-pronged approach that would bring together ...
Life Sciences & Industrial
Case Studies
Thu 28th May 5:37 pm
How Pontoon turned a misclassified talent population into a cohesive SOW programme
Our customer had a huge SOW worker population in the UK. Problem was, they didn’t know it — more than half of their 90 SOW projects had been misclassified and contractors ...
Financial Services
MSP
Thu 14th Feb 7:51 am
How we enabled a media company to digitally transform
Media industry executives recognise the importance of digital transformation in their industry – with 85% believing that digital technologies will enable cost transformation in both their technologies and marketing functions. ...
Life Sciences & Industrial
Services Procurement
Tue 14th Apr 4:26 pm
Achieving Key Results Within a Services Procurement Programme
Driving transformation efforts forward is reliant on having the right resources within the workforce. ...
Life Sciences & Industrial
Case Studies
Tue 18th Jun 1:48 pm
How Pontoon identified rogue SOW spend, mitigating risk for a financial services customer
Procurement professionals estimate their rogue spend to be as much as 23% of their negotiated spending, with estimates of nearly 60% of all contingent/contract labour being unaccounted for in ...
Financial Services

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