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Cut Costs, Not Corners.
Cygnet Consultancy
Ltd
Glide Forwards with Cygnet Consultancy
Cut Costs, Not Corners.
Cygnet Consultancy
Ltd
Software and Services
Award Winning Auction Software
“A Unique Service”
“GS Drive Down
Transport Costs”
GS has saved Clients
£100’s millions
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MoD win Procurement Award
Using our staff and processes
Our team saved over £100 million in a single competition
“GS cut cost of Royal Navy refits”
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Cygnet Consultancy
Ltd Leading Software That Provides:
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Software
• Reliability (100% in all Group Supplies auctions)
• Exceptional Response Times (bids to server in a second)
• Genuine Savings (£100+ million in a single event)
• Adaptability (set it to meet any specific need)
• Simplicity (visually user friendly and easy to operate)
• Buy in (ease of use encourages buy in from suppliers)
• Selling Tool (clients can run forward auctions)
• The first successful reverse auctions for many high profile clients
• Developed in conjunction with conglomerate ThyssenKrupp AG
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Leverage Buying
The GS Buying Group
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• Cygnet invites companies to join its buying group
• We combine supply volumes of our members to leverage the best supply costs
• Our historic contract negotiations have enable us to secure national contracts producing major savings for both goods and services
• As our membership grows, so does our ability to negotiate even more competitive pricing
• We monitor members purchasing and are able to continually compare direct pricing to get the best deals
(Our reverse auction process has produced savings averaging over 25% against previously contracted supply prices)
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Advice
Our Support
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From cost reduction and restructuring to marketing and implementation, the Cygnet Consultancy team help and support you to achieve your goals.
Whether you are a Private Sector Company or Public Sector Organisation - Tell us what you believe are the issues which are inhibiting the success of your business - whatever the size of the problem we can help.
Green Targets
Climate change and carbon foot-print concerns play huge roles for procurement professionals. Our consultants can assist you through every step of the process to ensure you are better placed to meet your green targets.
Broad Experience
Specific consultants have advised leaders in many sectors on needs as varied as:
• Sales of surplus items• World Wide parcel delivery• Raw material procurement including steel and bespoke manufactured products• Advised HM Government on: Treatment of end of life vehicles, Health & Safety Legislation and the decommissioning of Nuclear plants• Food, Clothing, logistics and vehicle hire
The list is endless, so regardless of your need please be assured we are there to guide you to the most commercial approach. For a free consultation contact us
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Some of our Clients
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Sample organizations that have benefited from using our services
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Air filters 36% Aluminum Extrusion 12% Architects services 14% Audio & Video Cassettes 26% Audio/Visual/installations 49% Automotive Metal Work 20% Bakery Ingredients 6% BT Lines 20% Building Surveyor 14% Camp Beds 14% Cameras 10% Catering 18% CCTV service contract 43% Cheese 8% Chilled/Frozen Goods 18% Chocolate 7% Civil and Structural 13% Cleaning Cloths 54% Clinical Consumables 18% Coffee 17% Commercial Tyres 10% Compasses 27% Computer Consumables 63% Contrast Media 65% Copier Paper 8% Corrosion & Icing Inhibitor 5% Courier parcel services 22% Derv & Gas Oil exc duty 12% Diving Apparel
63%
Domestic Couriers 23% Domestic Linen
10% Desk top stationary 46% Electric Office Supplies 33% Electricity 6% European Freight 11% Frigate Refit
21% Frozen Veg 6% Fuel DERV 5% Fuel Gas Oil 5% Fuel Kerosene 21% Fuel Transportation 62% Glasses 6% Gloves and Linen 43% Hand and Cutting Tools 39% Hydraulic and Engine Oil 26% Incontinence Products 30% International Freight 32% Landlines 19% Lease 22% Lifts maintenance 25% Lorry Tyres & Services 11% Mattresses 40% Mech and Engineering 13% Mobile Phone 17% Mount 54% Oils and Lubricants 37% Operating Theatre Products
19% Parts Haulage 31%
Plastic bins 26% Pasta 36% Plasma Torch Consumables
19% Pocket Pack Tissues 62% Postage 16% Power Cables 26% PPE 37% Printer Consumables 40% Printing 47% Project Manager 16% Quantity Surveyors 13% Rehabilitation Consumable
19% Risk and Value
13% Rock Salt 24% Shirts 47% Specialist Batteries 5% Stainless Steel Sheets 9% Stationery 64% Steel 15% Steel Storage / Furniture 8% Tarpaulins 27% Temporary staff 16% Thomas Bins 14% Tissues 66% Trailer 22% Trailer Hire 16% Urology Consumables 7% Welding 45% Wound Management 15%
Samples of Savings Achieved
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Consultancy / Reverse Auctions
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Ltd Our Service - Cygnets USP’s
• Developed in conjunction with the International Conglomerate ThyssenKrupp AG
• Sample savings: Tube Lines £3.5 million on outsourced professional costs
• A food Industry World leader 35% on the supply of Branded Goods
• ThyssenKrupp Automotive 37% on Oil & Lubricants
• LTI cut steel costs by 10% without the need to change their supplier
• BMW conducted a tender & created good savings. The subsequent GS process increased the savings achieved in their tender by 40%
• Cygnet structure competitions to give the most commercial result
• See some premier Private Sector clients that have benefited from this service
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Private Sector
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Cygnet Consultancy
Ltd The Complete Service - Cygnets USP’s
• We advise clients on legal compliance
• Auctions receive bids in one second
• Our software has a 100% reliability record
• This Unique service can addresses any supply or service need
• We provide a bespoke support service to clients & suppliers
• Our expertise and category knowledge allows us to solve any issues
• We challenge the status quo with average savings of over 25%
• We offer unique knowledge transfer and after sales support
• See some Public Sector clients that have used this service
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Public Sector
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The Largest UK Public Sector Reverse Auction Saving
£100 Million Saving on a £232 million contract
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• Biggest UK public sector reverse auction
• £100M Saving on a £232 million spend (approx 43%)
• 2,432 bids the highest on a public sector reverse auction
• Over 14 hours of continuous bidding
• Unrivaled savings performance @ £6.4 million per hour
• MoD combined its own office requirement with:
Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs - Home Office - Dept of Constitutional Affairs - Metropolitan Police - Foreign & Commonwealth Office - HM Treasury, Office of Government Commerce - HM Prison Service
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The UK Ministry of Defence
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