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Contract Monitoring

Contract Monitoring

Why Contract Monitoring Is Where the Real Work Begins

For many organisations, the end of a procurement process feels like the finish line. The tender has been completed, the preferred bidder selected, and the contract formally awarded. However, that’s not the end of the journey – it’s the beginning of the most important phase.

Guest Blog: How to Exit a Contract You’re Unhappy With: A Guide for Schools and Trusts

Disclaimer: Anything posted in this blog is for general information only and is not intended to provide legal advice on any general or specific matter.…

Guest Blog: Contracts: Key Terms and Things To Look Out For

Disclaimer: Anything posted in this blog is for general information only and is not intended to provide legal advice on any general or specific matter.…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

GUEST BLOG: Catering Service Challenges – Food Inflation & Recruitment

You will know, from your weekly shop, that food prices are soaring and there is no chance of this stopping any time soon. A perfect storm of Brexit, Covid and the war in Ukraine has contributed to this ever worsening situation. How is this impacting our school meals and what we can do to work together to manage the situation and minimise the impact?

Please check your contracts

We’re all very used now to hearing about how those in charge of the country have been wrong-footed by the pandemic. School business managers are…

Planning for the other side of the looking glass

Like Alice in Wonderland, we seem to have clambered through the looking glass into a strange, fantastical world where logic has been inverted. The normal…

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