Crescent Learning

A new range and existing resources available for you all in one place on our brand new bespoke website for training and procurement resources

FELP – A Helpful New Resource for You, From CPC

A wealth of procurement guidance and advice for best practice by The Further Education Library on Procurement's (FELP)database. An extremely useful resource that was maintained by the AoC Procurement Team.

Dutch Auctions - why take the risk?

Getting the best possible value for money for your institutions by thinking outside of the box. Innovation and pushing boundaries are essential in order to continue to improve and deliver an effective procurement service to your institution.

Do you really need to specify the hardware brand?

CPC are always looking at ways to achieve better value for money for our members, as such we have regular meetings with our suppliers to make sure that they are offering competitive prices as well as a good service. However, one thing that suppliers do say is that it’s very difficult to do offer competitive prices when members specify a particular brand.

Lift Maintenance framework

The Lift Maintenance framework expired in October this year and work is under-way with our Joint Contracting partners NEUPC for the replacement tender exercise. We would really appreciate member involvement & feedback to ensure that the new framework meets all of your wide ranging requirements.

NEW - Signs and Signage framework

CPC have been working with Joint Contracting partners NEUPC for the new Signs & Signage framework. To begin 10th November 2014.

Outsourced Catering Services Framework

Following the great success of the previous Outsourced Catering Services framework we would like to highlight that the new Outsourced Catering Services framework has been recently launched.

Government Opportunities Public Sector Supplier Summit

Adrian Davies had the pleasure of presenting at the Government Opportunities Public Sector Supplier Summit on 14th October in London. The presentation was about 'Working with Further Education and Academies', aiming to engage with delegates and encourage new suppliers to work with the sector.

Emergency Inhaler Kits

Lewis’s Medical Supplies, one of the suppliers, listed on Lot 2 First Aid Kits & Accessories of the PPE and Clothing Framework have advised us of a new ruling issued recently in relation to the use of emergency Inhaler kits.

Contracting Pipeline

Back in 2012 a project group was formed to review a mechanism for establishing and prioritising the contracting pipeline. The group explored and identified ways in which our members could feed into the contracting pipeline with ease.