Corporate supplier development
Ask the Buyer: Supplier Excellence Programme
A Centre of Excellence approach to developing your supply chain — helping local, diverse and smaller suppliers become genuinely contract-ready, and giving your organisation the evidence to prove it.
Why it matters
PA23 changed what a good supply chain looks like
Social value is no longer a tick box, and supplier diversity is now a board-level conversation. But most supplier development schemes stall because they teach suppliers about process rather than about how buyers actually score them.
We run these programmes for local authorities, housing associations, NHS trusts and corporate supply chains — using the same buyer-side expertise that has helped suppliers win billions in contract value.
How the programme works
Diagnose the supply base
We map your current supplier base against capability, diversity, locality and social value contribution — and show the board where the gaps really are.
Design the programme
A cohort-based development curriculum built for your suppliers: bid capability, contract readiness, compliance and social value evidencing.
Deliver the Centre of Excellence
Live workshops, clinics and one-to-one surgeries run by Adrian Betton MCIPS, drawing on 25 years of senior buyer-side experience.
Evidence the outcomes
Measured reporting on supplier readiness, spend diversity and social value so procurement and ESG teams can evidence PA23 obligations.
Programmes are designed around your supply base
Cohort size, delivery format and duration are scoped with you. Tell us what your supply chain needs and we will build a proposal for it.