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Consultancy Services

Millstream has over 18 years experience in providing consultancy services to public sector organisations in the following areas:

• Public sector procurement including the legislative and policy environment;
• Advice on EU Directives and procurement procedures;
• Business evaluation and recommendation of procurement strategies;
• Planning, timetabling and management of procedures;
• Development of evaluation criteria;
• Contract negotiation;
• Contract and supplier management;
• Industry standard tools and techniques, including best practice guidance;
• Efficiency savings and benefits realisation;
• Use of e-procurement tools;
• Skills evaluation and staff development;
• Procurement support covering areas such as:
  
  
  • preparation of specifications and evaluation criteria for a service which may be partially/completely competitively tendered/outsourced;
  • preparation of bidding documentation to support outsourcing partial/complete services;
  • management of the selection process, on behalf of a local authority, to appoint a provider to deliver partially/completely outsourced services.

Millstream is also a member of the Redcap Consortium which can provide a wide range of procurement consultancy services through the OGC Buying.Solutions, Catalist framework agreement.