Effective sourcing for public service delivery
PA's government consulting specialists advise on the world's largest outsourcing contracts
PA has supported government clients extensively in developing public service sourcing and outsourcing contracts. We have helped clients achieve some of the most successful, innovative, cost-effective and efficient forms of sourcing relationships, including third-party-funded deals.
PA's government sourcing and outsourcing services
Our government consulting expertise enables PA to offer a wide range of sourcing evaluation and implementation services, including:
- development of business strategy
- development of commercial strategy
- preparation of business cases
- procurement advice and support
- negotiation support
- service and technical advice
- performance modelling
- pre and post contract reviews
- post contract support
- due diligence
- risk modelling.
Case study: effective sourcing for public service delivery
One recent example of our work in this area is in helping the Medicines Control Agency* to implement major strategic change through groundbreaking outsourcing. The Agency is the regulatory body responsible for the approval and licensing of all medicinal products sold in the UK, and PA helped it to set up a highly innovative, strategic outsourcing contract.
The Agency required radical change in the way it operated, particularly in its management of information, and knew that outsourcing was the only answer. PA worked closely with the Agency to design a new kind of outsourcing contract that allowed for variations in planned expenditure and shared risk between client and outsourcer without unacceptable cost overheads for either party. In addition, rigorous governance processes designed by PA ensured the Agency retained control throughout. The arrangement started to deliver a 20% reduction in operating costs in its first year.
(* now operating as the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency)
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