Procurement for Housing
As the only national procurement organisation dedicated to the needs of the social housing sector, Procurement for Housing is an essential business tool for social landlords. The consortium generates substantial savings by harnessing the collective purchasing power of housing organisations. By reducing procurement costs, organisations can reinvest resources in front-line services and vibrant neighbourhoods. The National Housing Federation and the Chartered Institute of Housing back PfH, and their joint performance improvement subsidiary, HouseMark, monitors and assures the quality of its work.
With the current government agenda on savings and the drive for the public sector to collaborate to quickly tackle waste and improve accountability, PfH is delighted to join forces with ProcServe, the only government endorsed public sector eProcurement solution provider, to launch the PfH Marketplace. It will specifically help social housing organisations to reduce the price paid for goods and services by providing them with easy access to pre-loaded PfH framework agreements, provide simple connectivity to suppliers and deliver eInvoicing capabilities.
The solution helps these organisations streamline their procurement processes, enabling accurate tracking of spend and deliver efficiency savings, and hence meet the coalition's savings targets. For more information, please visit the Procurement for Housing Marketplace website.
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The ProcServe eMarketplace was selected as it is available under the OGC’s Zanzibar pan-government Framework and is already being used widely across the public sector. We are looking forward to further developing the streamlining of our P2P process, enabling a more efficient invoicing process and gaining greater control over the University’s expenditure. We will also be able to access pan-government collaborative contracts available to the Higher Education sector and wider government, and ensure we are only procuring the best value goods and services going forward, which will deliver significant bottom line savings.
Joanne Jones, Finance Director, University of Lincoln
