Zanzibar - The Collaborative Procurement Solution for UK Government
Background
Zanzibar is the UK Government's strategic collaborative electronic procurement system, recommended by the Operational Efficiency Review as key to driving collaboration across public sector buying. Zanzibar is operated as a secure hosted managed service and is available on a pre OJEU'd framework to anyone in UK public sector from Government's delivery partner, ProcServe.
Zanzibar uses leading edge web technology and business processes to deliver a state of the art electronic purchasing solution. Using Zanzibar, government buyers and suppliers can trade in a fast, secure and efficient environment. By bringing together the very best value government contracts in a single platform, Zanzibar opens the door to collaboration across public sector buying organisations and gives access to the best value deals. Best of all, Zanzibar captures each detail of every transaction passing through its portals to provide real time, granular management information on every aspect of spend - who, on what, with whom, when and how much - in every possible combination.
Latest Zanzibar News
- ProcServe announces enhanced Zanzibar Service Integration Capability. Read more...
- Zanzibar can now not only support Oracle Transparent PunchOut for catalogue access, but also has adapters for Oracle platforms to ease integration for their private and public sector customers. Read more...
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Procurement has to be able to demonstrate that it is able to influence 100% of its organisation’s spend. If it can’t then there is little chance of Procurement being seen as relevant in future or of it being able to drive value from over £200bn worth of third party spend. There is a much better chance of achieving this by working together. I am certain that there are the right people in sufficient numbers in the public sector to do this but they have to be focussed upon the right things.
David Shields, Director of Markets and Collaborative Procurement , Office of Government Commerce




