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Neopost Offers Flexibility to Public Sector Purchasing
Catalist and Zanzibar offers expeditious route for procurement
Catalist is a catalogue based procurement scheme designed to provide public sector organizations with a simplified method of buying and contracting for a wide range of IT based products. It reduces the time and cost associated with procurement by offering a pre-tendered call off facility.
Benefits:
- Available to all public sector organizations.
- Compliance with EC procurement legislation.
- No need to tender or obtain three quotes.
- Sound contractual protection based on best practice.
- Order on line with the ability to call off urgent requirements quickly.
- Neopost, via Catalist Prime Contractors, is an approved mailroom equipment sub-contractor.
Neopost welcomes the Government Procurement Card (GPC)
Neopost supports the Government and the wider public sector in the drive to achieve efficiency savings.
More than 62,000 cards have been used to buy goods and services worth more than £1.1 billion, producing savings for the public purse of almost £187 million.
The need for time consuming authorisation is removed and, on average, £28 is saved on each transaction when compared with traditional paper based methods. In addition, the opportunity to greatly reduce paperwork is environmentally friendly and underpins the Government's initiative regarding Sustainable Development (sources NAO & OGC).
"The GPC is, in every sense, a success. It reduces bureaucracy and saves money while it opens up the government market to new opportunities and new suppliers" - John Oughton, Chief Executive of the OGC.
Zanzibar
Zanzibar is an OGCbuying.solutions Managed Service which will go live in the last quarter of 2005.
Zanzibar is an eProcurement system that offers 3 features:
- an electronic marketplace containing details of Public Sector supplier contracts.
- a Purchase to Pay solution.
- a pan-Public Sector data warehouse.
Public sector bodies will benefit from efficiency improvement through:
- Providing the officials who place orders with access to multiple suppliers so that they can make informed value for money decisions.
- Having access to comprehensive data about spending patterns and suppliers used, which will enable better contracts to be established which offer improved value for money.
- Reducing procurement processing time and cost.
- Providing an opportunity to join a ready made framework, reducing the costs of procuring a marketplace and/or purchase-to-pay environment for the subscribing organisations.
- Meeting specific government e-procurement targets.
- A service which will mix with and extend any existing investment in e-procurement or associated technology and capability.
- A service which will create better and more transparent management information about procurement and spend, both for the subscribing body and across government and the wider public sector.
Neopost Finance
Neopost Finance Limited is a subsidiary of Neopost Limited and was established as a leasing company in 1989. It now has over 24,802 live leases giving a portfolio in excess of £84m (September 2007).
Set up for the exclusive use of Neopost customers we offer lease options over various terms up to six years to suit individual requirements.
Purchase plans can be tailored to suit customer budget constraints and payments can be spread over one to six years.
Our 'one stop shop' enables you the option to have all-in-one maintenance within the lease payments allowing us to offer firm prices and give peace of mind for the duration of the lease.
Neopost Finance Limited is a member of the Finance and Leasing Association which works with the industry to promote high standards and Compliance with the Code of Practice.
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