The only consortium owned by Further Education, providing the sector with value for money contracts across the UK
The only consortium owned by Further Education, providing the sector with value for money contracts across the UK
The Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC) is owned and run on behalf of the Further Education Sector. The CPC operates under a Board containing four Finance Directors, the Chair of the FE Directors of Finance Group, Peter Brewer and Margaret Barrett-Alletson (Managing and Deputy Managing Director of the CPC), a representative from the procurement team at the Association of Colleges, a Purchasing Advisory Group elected member of procurement staff from an institution and an institution's Principal.
The income generated from CPC collaboration will be invested into facilitating better procurement in FE institutions.
The CPC are committed to providing its members with a first class procurement service, which provides excellent value for money from contracted supplies and services.
Members have access to 472 professionally arranged contracts covering a wide range of goods and services. All contracts have a full audit history plus ultimately full cover for EU Legislation. We provide proven value for money on all arrangements.
The CPC now boasts 568 Further Education institutions in its' membership, these being located in a number of different regions throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Membership is free of charge and open to a variety of different types of Further Education institutions. The only thing we ask prospective members to do is to nominate a member of staff to become the Liaison Officer between the institution and the CPC. We will give a full, free induction session to the Liaison Officer regarding duties.
2nd Jul 10
It has been confirmed that the training workshop for EU Procurement Regulations in Nottingham will take place on 6th July between 9.30am and 4pm at New College Nottingham, Basford Hall, Stockhill Lane, Nottingham, NG6 0NB.
29th Jun 10
We are pleased to announce that CPC posted an OJEU Contract Notice of the Tender for Sports, Fitness and Gym Equipment on Tuesday 29th June and we are encouraging suppliers to apply for local, regional or national supply. Our thanks go to all members who have previously provided information and documentation as it has all proven extremely useful in developing the tender.
29th Jun 10
You are invited to attend "What's the difference between an employee, an agency worker and a self employed worker?" seminar which is organised by Weightmans and is taking place:
The latest EU framework contracts which have been awarded by the CPC are as follows:
For those interested in becoming a supplier to CPC, full details of forthcoming and current tenders are available on the CPC section of the In-Tend website. Suppliers may also confirm their interest by registering on the In-Tend site.
Where our Members' annual group spend exceeds the EU threshold of £156,442 (2009 threshold), we are obliged to advertise the contract in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Insight / Google Webinar
Remote Session via the Internet
2010 IT Infrastructure Management Forums
London, Leeds and Edinburgh
Matrix Technology Day
Think Tank Museum, Birmingham Millennium Point
The CPC has been asked by many Members for help in completing EMM returns in terms of what supplier savings to report.
Whilst this is an impossible task for the CPC to undertake since we cannot know what the members would have spent had the CPC contracts not been available, we can help in a limited way.
EU institutions are required to comply with EU tendering directives and it is our job, as your purchasing consortium, to fully inform our members of EU purchasing requirements and to encourage all members to fully comply with the Directives.
Part of the offering of the consortium is to tender contracts through the EU to give full cover to our members but we are aware that some members utilise quotations from our EU tendered suppliers and then offer contracts elsewhere.