Partnering Services

The Comprehensive Spending Review in October 2010 has presented challenges to all market sectors.

It is essential that your partnerships work well together and deliver all the benefits that are possible through collaborative working.

Partnering Services is not about organising your Core Groups and Contract Meetings. It is much more and your Partnering Advisor should help you to:

• Create the culture and trust needed to make your contracts work for all parties
• Identify and deliver your mutual objectives
• Set long term goals and targets that all partners work towards; and which make a difference
• Agree how you will improve and the efficiencies you will deliver
• Deliver ‘more for less’ as you learn from your experiences together
• Develop services that meet the expectations of your customers
• Resolve disputes quickly and fairly so that you can get on with the job

In our experience, the deployment of an experienced facilitator is essential in making your partnerships work effectively. The provision of independent advice and support will help to create the environment you need to stimulate innovation and improvement in your contractual relationships.

Where can we help?

PML is an experienced facilitator and we bring to the table both strategic and operational management expertise alongside sound procurement and asset management capacity. We can help you to:

• Mobilise your contracts effectivel
• Get partnership working together
• Train & Prepare your staff
• Consolidate Supply Chains arrangements
• Establish standardised working processes and procedures
• Create effective Performance Management mechanisms
• Team Building & Dispute Resolution
• Open Book & Reconciliation

We will work alongside and your partners to identify opportunities for efficiency and service improvement where risks and rewards are shared. We will help to develop your team to manage your contractual relationships effectively so that you deliver ongoing service improvements through long term partnership.

Where do you benefit?

The organisations that work with PML develop a greater understanding of market expectations and acknowledged best practice. The partnerships that we support have delivered many positive outcomes including:

• ‘Demonstrable’ savings (both ‘cashable’ and ‘non cashable’)
• Performance improvement
• Efficiency and Value for Money
• Customer involvement
  Inward investment & Corporate Social
  Responsibility outcomes
  Awards & Accreditations
  ‘Holistic’ Asset Management Dispute ‘free’ relationships based on trust

We are able to provide tangible evidence of the benefits we have delivered and projects where we have generated savings and outcomes that exceed our costs many times over. Ultimately, we will help you to create contractual relationships that are innovative, efficient and high performing; and which protect front line services and deliver affordable, cost effective projects.

Why PML?

Our directly employed team have a mix of skills and expertise to meet your business needs. We regularly work with client organisations and are well placed to help you respond to the challenges that they now face. Our team has both strategic and operational experience; and a full range of professional qualifications to supplement those in your team. We are associated with many best practice organisations including:

• Constructing Excellence
• Housing Forum
• PPC/TPC Steering Group
• Asset Skills Council
• Chartered Institute of Purchase & Supply
• British Institute of Facilities Management

Contact Us

Contact us to discuss the issues that you face and free consultation on the support we
can provide. As standard, we will provide you with a clear project brief with defined outputs and price proposals before we commence. We look forward to discussing how we might meet your business needs and to helping your organisation improve, develop and grow.

Email Kim Newman or Tyron Stalberg, or call us on 020 7256 2216.