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JISC Advance WBL Procurement Projectwww.gemforwbl.ac.uk
RSC East Midlands
15 February 2013
Steve Durham
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JA WBL Procurement Project
• Project is funded by Dept of BIS and started in
December 2011.
• It aims to support the work based learning sector
which does not have access to consortia type
purchasing agreements which are widely available to
colleges, schools and universities.
• The goal is to establish agreements for wbl providers
to facilitate cost savings and access to best value
contracts.
JA WBL Procurement Project
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Project has three key objectives-
•To establish a consortium based approach to
purchasing for the work based learning sector.
•To provide an electronic market place GeM, for
WBL providers.
•To negotiate agreements for high value items such
as Awarding Organisations.
How much can you save ? consider these price
variations from the Green Report on Procurement
by Government Departments in 2010, for the same
spec items:
Box of paper £8-£73
Printer cartridges £86-£398
Laptop computers £353-£2000
Car hire daily rate £27-£119.
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• The Project is looking to make available a number of
supplier agreements from early 2013 to providers in
the WBL sector.
• To deliver the Project we are working in partnership
with several organisations in the sector which include
Greater Manchester Learning Provider Network (
www.gmlpn.co.uk) AELP and @ukplc.
• Spend analysis exercise has given us a shopping list
of high spend items.
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• National contract agreed with Office Depot to
commence January 2013. Discussions underway with
Pearson (Edexcel/EDI) and other awarding
organisations regarding possible national agreement.
• Our own website is built by @UK PLC with a January
2013 start. (they built www.gem.ac.uk for
Universities).The website will host our contracts
database, electronic market place and request for
quotation functions.
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www.gemforwbl.ac.uk
• This service is provided on a free and no obligation
basis.
• First contract with Office Depot now live on the
website.
• About 12 other suppliers will be added to website
marketplace in next few weeks.
• Can present this information to your groups or
organisations.
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