Outsourced maintenance renewal and commercial management solution that enhances visibility and control over maintenance spend. £13M of savings delivered to 25 NHS Trusts.

The systems and expertise Leaseguard provide have enabled us to gain control of our maintenance contracts, meet our risk management obligations, and generate savings in the region of 10% of overall spend.
Alan Farnsworth,
RUH 2010 Change Programme Lead
Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust

Market leading consultancy to protect NHS lessees and optimise value. More than 50 NHS Trusts rely on our advice, guidance and systems.

Over the last 15 years King's have entered into over £25M of leases: Leaseguard have ensured that every lease has been on commercial terms which protect us and ensure that we are able to make the right decisions at the right time to maximise value and operational flexibility."

Richard Miller, Associate Director of Procurement.
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Systems that drive procurement and contract management activity to timescale, improving performance and reducing costs.

Since its introduction, OPTIMiSe has enabled the Trust to generate significant savings. The savings have been carefully measured and have grown year on year until they now represent annualised savings in excess of £1m per annum

Andrew O'Connor, Head of Procurement and Corporate Social Responsibility
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Systems and services that enable NHS Trusts to optimise Business Cases and plan asset replacements at minimum cost.

Leaseguard were heavily involved in modelling many iterations of the funding plan for equipping the new hospital - and their input, expertise and imagination were key factors in the success of this project.

Peter Burroughs, Director of Capital Investment and Project Director (retired)
University College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Systems and services designed to enable Trusts to exert real control over their asset base and asset-related processes

Leaseguard has a novel approach to asset management and we are working with them to see how their systems could help us achieve a step-change in the way we manage assets and their related processes.

Peter Jarritt, Clinical Director of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Procurement solutions that deliver savings against established benchmarks across a range of procurements, from beds replacement to energy procurement.

Leaseguard approached this beds project with a different perspective, and showed us how we could save over £150k in maintenance costs alone. As well as delivering savings, our contracts are now better suited to meet our clinical needs

John Yarnold, Director of Finance
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

Our objective is simple. To deliver solutions that help NHS Trusts drive down costs and enhance visibility and control over asset related spend. Our strategy to achieve this is equally straightforward. We recruit the very best commercial talent we can find. We train them to deliver the highest possible level of service. And we support their work by developing the very best systems available in this sector.

Peter Mullin, Chief Executive
Leaseguard Group Limited
 

More effective procurement; better managed contracts.

Recent years have seen a number of Procurement initiatives from Hubs and Procurement Confederations to the implementation of P2P systems. Even the most ardent supporters of the hub approach, though, would probably have to concede that they have enjoyed limited success. And, while P2P systems are useful in controlling catalogues, budgets and the payment cycle, they do not manage to impact one of the core problems; that procurements take far too long. Nor do they address how contracts should best be managed post-procurement.

Given the amount of work Procurements departments are required to manage, this is by no means surprising. Drowning in paperwork, tenders, multiple stakeholders and a constantly changing landscape, it is no surprise that Procurement departments find that driving procurements to timescale is challenging, to say the least, and that truly effective contract management is impossible.

OPTIMiSe is designed to address these issues at the root cause. OPTIMiSe is not an ‘e-tendering system’ but a way of effectively managing the whole cycle of procurement and contract management. OPTIMiSe is internet-based so access can be made available to everyone who needs it, and it has three key principles which permeate every aspect of its extensive functionality:

 

  1. It is a workflow management system. Procurement and contracts are managed as projects – a project being series of tasks which drive a process from start to finish. The project management capabilities of OPTIMiSe are sophisticated but simple to use and drive procurements to completion on time and at minimum cost, and provide a basis upon which contracts and suppliers can be actively managed – improving performance and reducing cost.
  2. It is a communications management system. Since many people in an organisation - and many suppliers - may be involved in any given procurement, OPTIMiSe is specifically designed to manage the communication between everyone more efficiently and more effectively. All tasks are allocated to members of the ‘virtual team’ selected to manage that project, with the system providing the discipline to drive task completion - and the ability to quickly identify log-jams.
  3. It is an information management system. Everything is stored automatically within OPTIMiSe: documents, tenders, reports, notes, e-mails, pricing. All in one place, and all easy to access and correlate.

OPTIMiSe helps free a procurement department from day-to-day drudgery, allowing them to focus on real added-value activity. For both Procurement and Financial Management it delivers the capability to truly manage the procurement function to best effect. In short: real control; faster realisation of benefits; more benefits.

To find out more about how Leaseguard can assist in generating savings and improved control over the Procurement process, call Stuart Jefcoate on 01865 340800. He will be happy to outline our services and to demonstrate the success we have achieved for our many NHS clients.

Procurement & Contract Management

Since its introduction, OPTIMiSe has enabled the Trust to generate significant savings. The savings have been carefully measured and have grown year on year until they now represent annualised savings in excess of £1m per annum.
Andrew O'Connor, Head of Procurement and Corporate Social Responsibility
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust