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Guest Blog: Preventing And Responding To A Cyber Attack
Neil Limbrick is an independent consultant who has worked in an IT Strategy Role with MATs and Schools for over 20 years. He is currently…
Contract Monitoring – Getting The Best Out Of Your Services: Formal Review Meetings
Review meetings are a critically important part of keeping your contract on track. As previously discussed for catering and cleaning services , hopefully you’ve been…
Getting The Best Out Of Your Services – Cleaning Contract Monitoring
Once you have a clear idea of what you should be expecting from your contractor, then you can get down to the detail of the…
Getting The Best Out Of Your Services: Catering Contract Monitoring
Once you have a clear idea of what you should be expecting from your contractor, then you can get down to the detail of the…
Contract Monitoring – Getting The Best Out Of Your Services: Foundations Of Good Contract Monitoring
You’ve run your tender process, awarded the contract, the new provider has started in your school or Trust, but how can you be sure that…
Procuring Construction and Estate Management Professional Services – A Supplier’s Perspective
With a decade of working with schools and academies on construction and estate management, both as a client and as a consultant, Jonathan Jones of MAC…
ISO:9001 certification – a benchmarking case study
We are very proud to be ISO:9001 accredited (read more about why it matters here) and recently completed our annual surveillance audit, which were very…
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): what are they, why are they important and where do they come from?
KPIs are measurable values that demonstrate how well a service is performing. They may be high level, focussing on overall performance, or low-level, focussing on…
Advice on Writing ICT Managed Service Tender Specifications
In the last of our blogs on writing tender specifications, we are focusing on the dark art of ICT Managed Service and they key things you need to include.
Advice on Writing Cleaning Tender Specifications
In the third of our series of blogs on writing tender specifications, we focus on detailed issues around cleaning and the key areas you need to include - which might not always be as clear as you think.....
Energy Masterclass: How To Leverage A Favourable Energy Market
Since the pandemic, energy rates have been volatile. We teamed up with Zenergi, to review what is happening in the energy market. Now that it is starting to calm down, we want to give you all the information you need to make the best buying decisions.
Cyber Essentials: The Advantages for Minerva and our Customers
Minerva achieved Cyber Essentials accreditation in January this year, after months of hard work, and what felt like a million new tracking documents, policies and training sessions. But what does Cyber Essentials actually mean for us and our customers?
Advice On Writing Catering Tender Specifications
Catering is one of the contracts that Minerva deals with most frequently. So, we know what you need to include in your specification so that you get the best outcome. Read on to get the benefit of our wisdom....
General Advice On Writing A ‘Fit For Purpose’ Specification
With procurement support and training for schools, academies and Trusts diminishing, I have decided to try and plug the gap in this blog and related webinar by looking at how you can write a fit for purpose specification to help you run your tender processes more efficiently and effectively.
Guest Blog: Staff Retention by Role: Unpicking The Reasons Why Your Staff Leave
On the face of it, recruitment and retention may not seem to have a direct link to procurement. However, with rising resignation rates, we can expect to pay more for recruitment which further squeezes our budgets. We need to understand what the levers are that encourage retention.
Aligning Your Estates Vision With Your Educational Vision
Jo Marchant, author of the brilliantly practical “The School Premises Handbook”, has worked in school estate management for the last 15 years. In this blog,…
Minerva Procurement Consultancy Services Annual Customer Service Survey Results
Celebrating Service Excellence At Minerva Procurement Consultancy Services, we are thrilled to announce the results of our Annual Customer Service Survey, conducted in conjunction with…
How To Make Your School Stand Out From The Crowd
Communitas PR is a marketing communications consultancy working exclusively in the education sector both in the UK and internationally. Director Ken Stevens has designed and led…
Your IT Audit: What You Must Do, What You Should Do and What You Could Do
IT is a massive area and understanding what you need to audit and how you should go about it is equally massive. In this blog, Neil Limbrick uses his considerable expertise to help you focus your attention on the areas you should be concentrating on and signposts some of the resources that can really help you.
Minerva and B1G1 – Working With Our Clients To Make A Positive Contribution To Society
Our aim at Minerva is to ensure that we provide an excellent service and make a big difference to our clients.
However, we also feel that we should be making a bigger difference to the wider world.
Read how we are working on our client's behalf with B1G1 to make this a reality.
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