Procurement announces another contract win

Xchanging plc ('Xchanging') (LSE:XCH), the business process and technology services provider and integrator, today announces that it has been awarded a three year procurement services contract by a leading investment and insurance institution in the UK.

Under the contract, Xchanging will provide a range of procurement services, including the provision of technology, helpdesk and expert sourcing services.

In addition, Xchanging will provide ‘Tail Spend Management’, looking for opportunities to create savings by rationalising spend with the 80% of suppliers that account for only 20% of this customer’s overall spend profile.

Ed Cross, Head of Procurement Services - Europe, commented: “I am delighted by this deal as it demonstrates that our new go-to-market approach for procurement services is paying dividends. It continues to build on the momentum in the global market place that we’ve gained with the two contracts announced in August 2011, one with L’Oréal in Europe and the second with BAE Systems in North America”.

For further information, please contact: 
Xchanging

Ed Cross
Head of Procurement Services                        Tel: +44 (0)7748 761994
Ed.Cross@Xchanging.com

Graham Copeland                                              Tel: +44(0) 7825 273060
Head of Sales- Procurement
Graham.Copeland@Xchanging.com

About Xchanging
Xchanging is a business process and technology service provider and integrator specialising in Financial Services, Insurance Services, Technology and Procurement, with processing skills and capabilities applicable to other vertical industry and market sectors.

Perfect Commerce and Verizon Wireless partner to help utility service companies reduce operational expenses:

With a tough economy constantly hovering overhead, businesses are looking for solutions that help improve overall operational expenses. Perfect Commerce, an eprocurement and esourcing solution expert, and Verizon Wireless are working together to help businesses with their cost-cutting initiatives.  Using a strategic Group Purchasing Organization (GPO), Perfect Commerce can offer companies in the gas utility, water utility, electric utility, oil and gas refinery or coal industries a substantial cost savings on Verizon Wireless voice and data services as well as select accessories.  Non-Verizon clients may also be eligible for these special incentives, provided they switch services to Verizon Wireless.

Perfect Commerce is launching monthly e-communication campaigns to educate its members on these special savings, as well as wireless technology solutions that can help address a number of business challenges.   Over 135 new clients have taken advantage of these custom offerings since the new campaign launch this past July.  Clients are catching on to the scent of savings and some have started to see significant cost reductions.

Multi-site contract for McDonald's in the United Kingdom

VINCI Facilities is assuming responsibility for 463 McDonald’s restaurants in the United Kingdom.

The restaurants are located in Scotland, the North West, the North East, Central London, South East London, and Yorkshire.

This contract includes a 24/7 repair service for catering and electrical equipment, preventive maintenance, 24/7 air conditioning, the maintenance and repair of gas-fired equipment, the refrigeration and monitoring of fixed and portable electrical appliances.

McDonald’s number one priority is to serve their customers. VINCI Facilities will contribute to this by servicing and repairing the equipment in its restaurants. Equipment downtime has to be minimized, which we ensure by providing high quality maintenance and a fast response service with a high level of first fix. In addition, we must ensure that obligatory maintenance standards are complied with - both statutory checks and food-safety equipment tests.

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VINCI Facilities to deliver hard FM to Queen Elizabeth PFI Hospital

VINCI Facilities has been awarded the contract by Meridian Hospital Company to provide fully outsourced hard FM services to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital PFI in Woolwich, London.

The  £70M contract over 20 years will see VINCI Facilities TUPE across 30 full time staff and deliver a wide range of services to the PFI scheme including planned preventative and reactive maintenance, grounds maintenance, property management and capital works, life cycle replacement works, energy and waste management, medical gases and vacuum system and training services.

In addition VINCI Facilities will manage the delivery of the £50M capital replacement works over this term.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital opened in 2001 to serve patients in the London Boroughs of Greenwich and Bexley. It was one of the first wave of PFI Hospital build projects within the NHS and involved the transformation of the former military hospital at Woolwich into an acute general hospital for the NHS. The hospital provides 484 acute beds and 87 mental health beds.

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Latest news from VINCI Facilities in the UK

VINCI Facilities secures Transport for London and London Underground maintenance contracts

VINCI Facilities has reinforced its position as a key service provider in the transport and infrastructure sector with the recent award, 14th November 2011, of two facilities management contracts for Transport for London and London Underground.

The Facilities Management contracts include parts of the corporate and operational estate’s providing Service Desk, HVAC, M&E, Building Fabric, Soft and Security Services.  The contract is set for a five year period.

VINCI Facility’s approach, combining robust asset management delivered by bespoke operational CAFM systems and a dynamic approach to labour and resource allocation, demonstrated key deliverables of the invitation to tender. 


You can meet Vinci Facilities at ProcureCon Indirect which takes place 24th - 26th April in London. Find out more here 

ProcureCon Indirect speakers give insight into the projects they’re working on, as well as the challenges facing them in 2012

ProcureCon Indirect returns on 24^th-26^th April, promising three days of networking, benchmarking and debate among 300 of Europe’s leading indirect procurement practitioners.

Building on the success of last year’s meeting, the ProcureCon Indirect team have put together an entirely revamped agenda, focusing only on the critical issues affecting CPOs and senior indirect sourcing professionals. It’s truly an agenda by the industry, for the industry, with discussion topics chosen by a special Advisory Board made up of key figures from within the industry.

Prior to the conference, several of the event’s keynote speakers share some of the projects they’re currently working on, as well as the challenges facing them in 2012:

Heather Rodgers - Chief Procurement Officer, Centrica

Key project you are currently working on:

Overviewing Procurement transformation in time of change in Centrica for 10bn spend. Focus for 2012 is indirect spend drive for review, Talent Boards development of high potential performers, development of M and A strategic sourcing best practice and SRM roll out. Balance of growth agenda and costs efficiencies in business units.

What you foresee being your key challenges for the next 12 months:

Build next generation of leaders to achieve high performing agenda , creatively challenging notions of value , seeing change coming and options ready on the table for ways forward and risk management being driven down the supply chain beyond immediate partners

How you are overcoming the challenges:

Overcoming by developing risk management processes and working with partners for transparency and involved in Group Risk Executive Committees for discussions early. Budget – kept money aside for development of people and attracting talent from graduates, other departments and external.

Business intelligence experts Rosslyn Analytics selects ClickThrough Marketing to continue growth

Cloud-based data management specialists Rosslyn Analytics have asked ClickThrough Marketing to assist with their internet marketing activities.


Cloud-based data management specialists Rosslyn Analytics have asked ClickThrough Marketing to assist with their internet marketing activities.

ClickThrough Marketing, one of the UK's leading search engine and internet marketing companies, will support Rosslyn Analytics’ continued rapid growth using powerful search engine optimisation and conversion optimisation techniques.

The new initiative will focus on increasing website traffic and tailoring online content for Rosslyn Analytics, recently named as one of the best privately held software companies in the world.

Rosslyn Analytics has developed a patent-pending online RA.Pid data management platform and integrated suite of one-click data extraction, data quality and analytical reporting tools that help business users to quickly identify savings opportunities with better and more timely business intelligence.

“We believe that the key to successful data management is putting consumer-like enterprise tools directly into the hands of business users,” said Lance Mercereau, Director of Marketing at Rosslyn Analytics. “Our cloud services allow businesses to extract, enrich and analyse data quickly and efficiently, at the touch of a button.”

“Our decision to appoint ClickThrough was based on their similarly uncomplicated and transparent attitude to online marketing. We look forward to working with them and expect their innovative approach yields the business results we expect from an award winning agency.”

ClickThrough is delighted with the new appointment.

Phil Robinson, Commercial Director at ClickThrough, said: “Rosslyn Analytics have already seen massive growth thanks to their cutting-edge analytics solutions. We are looking forward to building on this success together with a search engine optimisation campaign that will open up their brand to a whole new audience.”

Since 2004, ClickThrough Marketing has helped clients in more than 30 countries reach out to new online customers with its ethical and client-focused approach and industry-leading online marketing techniques. They offer a fully-managed online marketing service, that integrates Pay Per Click campaigns, social media management and search engine optimisation.


You can meet Rosslyn Analytics at the ProcureCon Indirect Conference which takes place 24th - 26th April 2012. Find out more here