Procurement Services

Training & Employment Services

Consultancy Services

Social Value & Procurement

Fusion21

• Self-sustaining, profitable, business model – with no reliance on funding

• Membership grown from 7 to over 130 across the country

• Developed first “Intelligent Procurement” model

• A true social enterprise providing a range of specialist services in social housing for over 10 years

• Is a housing consortium which establishes and manages EU compliant procurement frameworks for social landlords

• Developed social clauses within contracts that require the supply chain to commit to a training and employing local, long-term, unemployed people

• Works with all social landlords (LA, ALMO, HA)

• Principles can apply to any area of public spend or sector

• Model also works and extends into, the planning system

Fusion21

Intelligent Procurement

CORE AIMSaving

money & generating social value

Training & Employment Services

Creating Skills and Employment

Opportunities

Procurement Services

Generating Savings through Collaborative Procurement

More for Less

Intelligent Procurement = Delivering efficiency, protecting

margins and securing social outcomes

Funding Social Value

Contract Cost(materials, labour etc)

Risk

Supplier Profit

Contractor Profit

Contract Cost(materials, labour etc)

Supplier Profit

Contractor Profit

RiskSocial Action Fund

Lifts

Kitchens

Void Security

Gas Servicin

gFM

High Rise

Kitchens

Heating System

s

Windows&

Doors

Solar PV &

ThermalRetrofit

Digital TV

New Build

Insurance Services

Legal Service

s

Ground Works

Consultants

Roofing

Painting &

Repairs

Energy Perf. Certs.

Insulation

Systems

Bathrooms

Frameworks

Social Programmes

• Fusion21 Skills Programme – an “open” programme to train unemployed in construction skills (e.g. “Lads & Dads”, targeted estates,

• Offender programmes – within prison estate and beyond the gate

• Women into construction initiatives

• NEETs programmes

• Shared apprenticeship programmes

• Community projects

• Job clubs…….Delivered by our own in-house training team and local social

enterprise partners

Created over 1000 jobs linked to procurement

Helped thousands of local people with training

Summary of outcomes

Over £30m injected back into the local economy

Managed +£600m of joint procurement activity

Generated over £55m cash savings for members

Multi-award winning business model

Leading & promoting social enterprise

Procurement & Commissioning

"Good commissioning is much more than just procuring services.”

“It is delivering customer-centric outcomes for an area, through the process of specifying, securing and monitoring services to meet people's needs at a strategic level.” 

Ref: an amalgamation of definitions created by The CBI and the Audit Commission.

• Combined total spending power of circa £400m/yr

• Collective membership of over 1100

• 69 active framework agreements

• National coverage with regional delivery

• Over 50 years combined track record

Partnership Working

Procurement Services

Training & Employment Services

Consultancy Services