Technical Overview

Consolidating our members individual fuel expenses we achieve savings through a procurement process. We are able to undertake each stage in the procurement cycle from strategy and policy development, through contract renewal and contract management, to performance review. The distinct stages are:

• Compilation of invitation to tender document
• Analysis of all Offers
• Business awarded and contact placed for C-UK
• Administration of Contract

In todays volatile markets, offers can be withdrawn when the market experiences more than a 1% movement. Speedy and accurate collation and assessment of suppliers offers is therefore essential. On-line auctions have not always been successful in energy procurement largely because of a lack of in-depth offer analysis and clarity in the auction rules. We therefore use our partners sophisticated software which: Collates offers via an on-line auction system which provides rigorous analysis based upon offers which conform to well-defined guidelines; Enables a like for like comparison of offers, within a very limited period of validity. Performance Review Monitoring and controlling procurement performance is fundamental to service quality improvement. We comprehensively track the performance benchmarking service. This includes: Maintenance of data on the system,Variance to budget reports on Volumes, Prices, Total, Other specified performance indicator