Strategic Sourcing & Procurement

This service assists organisations to plan and procure business and technology solutions and services. It ranges from developing sourcing strategies and commercial structuring through to the development of procurement plans, specifications, tenders, evaluation of offers, preparing evaluation reports that substantiate the recommendation and due diligence.

AOT Consulting has undertaken over 1,000 strategic sourcing projects including large outsourcing services contracts, infrastructure, business systems, multi-sourcing, facilities management and general goods and services. The strategic sourcing approaches have been based upon different contracting models such as Alliance Based Contracts and PPP.

The service is customised to meet specific requirements that covers some or all of the following:

  • Business Case / Sourcing Strategy
  • Commercial Structuring
  • Market / Procurement Research
  • Options Analysis
  • Risk Assessment
  • Procurement Planning
  • Service Specifications
  • Performance Metrics and models (e.g. risk Reward framework), / Service Level Agreements / Abatement regimes
  • Pricing and payment models, performance linked payments
  • Risk management

  • Draft Tender / EOI (single stage / two-stage)
  • Draft Contract
  • Evaluation
  • Due Diligence and Negotiations
  • Contract Finalisation
  • Contract Management Plan
  • Transition Planning
  • Transition Management (for some projects)
  • Draft Tender / EOI (single stage / two-stage as determined)
  • Draft Contract
  • Contract Auditing