Treasury Solicitor's Department (TSOL)
The Treasury Solicitor's Department provides legal services to over 180 central government departments and other publicly funded bodies in England and Wales, and collect bona vacantia on behalf of the Crown.
The have now embraced Zanzibar and their main objectives for using the public sector collaborative procurement marketplace are:
- to gain control and visibility of their third party spend
- to be able to take advantage of best value collaborative deals
The implementation of Zanzibar is aligned with other aspects of a change programme where for example they will be capturing spend information on fees to small legal firms. Initially TSOL intends to channel their 3rd party common spend through the service with the possibility of bringing on a broader group of suppliers incrementally.
PfH has decided to team up with ProcServe so that Members can benefit from the value-for-money afforded by PfH framework agreements coupled with the easy, intuitive and efficient ordering solution provided by ProcServe. We know that there has been a growing demand for a service like this from our Members and we firmly believe that in ProcServe we have found the right partner to deliver it.
Paul Kennedy, Chief Executive, CEL Group (Procurement for Housing managing contractor)