Procurement Strategy & Services is part of the Professional Services Directorate established to help the university deliver best value from its spending.

The primary role of the team is to work with university stakeholders to ensure the achievement of these key goals:

• Delivery of value for money from third party spend;
• Delivery of projects and contracts to time, quality and cost, realising benefits and minimizing risk;
• Providing a professional source of reference to all university staff on best procurement practice;
• Reducing university administrative costs through continuous streamlining of the procurement process;
• Providing policy standards and guidance on best practice in procurement, and assisting Schools’ and Departments' in delivering against these standards;
• Promoting and fostering collaborative procurement across the HE sector to deliver better value for money and better services; and provide innovative ways to develop the university commercial and procurement capability;
• Driving forward the improvement of College capability in procurement project management through the development of people skills, processes and tools.
• Information on contracted suppliers (internal page), are posted on the Procurement Strategy & Services website for staff only.

The aim of the Procurement Strategy & Services Office is to provide a supportive, accountable, responsive and professional service to increase value and/or reduce cost both at a monetary and operational level. This will be achieved by empowering and supporting the right person to make the right choice given the right information at the right time and be underpinned by the fundamental principles of value for money and good procurement practice, while maintaining the highest ethical standards.

This will be undertaken while paying due regard to national, regional and locally-driven collaborative procurement initiatives developed for the greater benefit of the HE sector and public sector as a whole

Socially Responsible Procurement

The university has a Socially Responsible procurement strategy which, through its buying and contracting activity, aims to benefit the local and international community. At its heart is to make the world a better place in furtherance of King's Strategic Vision 2029.

The Socially Responsible Procurement Policy compliments and reinforces King's strategic priorities and wider policies on sustainability, diversity and payment of the London Living Wage. The policy is intended to ensure that King's buys third party goods and services in ways which are beneficial to society, especially focusing on King's local boroughs.

The Sustainable Supply Chain Code of Conduct supports King's strategic priorities by reinforcing the message across the university commercial partners, you can find this document below.

Supply & contract opportunities

King’s College London purchases goods, works and services to support our Strategic Priorities.

The university is committed to working effectively with its suppliers and promoting opportunities for organisations from all sectors to work with King's. The information on this page is designed to help organisations understand how we do business and the opportunities that are currently available.

King’s College London is not a public body within the meaning of the public procurement legislation. Where the University decides to advertise via any government portal, it does so on a voluntary basis and does not undertake any obligation to comply with procurement legislation. The University reserves the right in full to adapt or step outside of the procedures in procurement legislation as it considers necessary. The procedure the University commits to following for any individual procurement will be explained in the relevant tender documentation.

To help suppliers we have published various documents, guidelines and/or regulations that can be accessed.

Please contact us and the relevant member of staff will assist with any queries

Bribery Act 2010

In all areas of business, there is a potential for unscrupulous individuals or organisations to try to unfairly influence commercial and/or contractual matters for their own advantage. King's College London upholds the highest standards of integrity in all of its business affairs and Procurement Strategy & Services endeavours to ensure that all processes and procedures utiised in selecting suppliers to the university are monitored and that any potential for nefarious practices are avoided.

Procurement Strategy & Services acts as a source of reference to university staff and suppliers to ensure that proper, fair and open communications exist and ensures that any acts or activities that occur during our procurement projects do not represent inducements or could be misinterpreted as such.

Procurement Strategy & Services also is the owner of the Anti-Corruption Policy, held in the university's Policy Zone, that sets out, in detail, what constitutes bribery and the steps necessay to avoid it.

Diversity & Inclusion

King’s College London supports and promotes diversity and inclusion in all areas of its business.

As such, and in common with the HE sector, the university seeks assurances from its suppliers that they comply with the statutory obligations laid down by the various relevant Acts of Parliament.

All tender exercises carried out by the Procurement Office have questionnaires that require prospective suppliers to provide details of their processes and procedures in relation to the Equality Act 2010.

Further information can be obtained from the university’s Diversity & Inclusion section.

Health & Safety

King's requires that all of its suppliers uphold the highest standards Health and Safety and comply with all statutary requirements prescribed in UK legislation when supplying services or products to the university. Appropriate Heath and Safety requirements are issued routinely when inviting tenders for specific contracts. There are, however, guidence for prospective suppliers on the more general requirements on the Health & Safety Services web pages

Modern Slavery Act (MSA) 2015

King's College London conducts its business in compliance with the provisions of all applicable legislation and operates a zero-tolerance policy towards non-compliance with the Modern Slavery Act 2015. As such, the university is committed to ensuring that mechanisms are in place to prevent business being undertaken with an organisation that has not adopted appropriate steps to ensure that Modern Slavery is not taking place in any of its supply chains.

King's College London seeks written assurances from prospective suppliers regarding their compliance with this Act.

Further information can be obtained from the King's Transparency Statement and Policy.

Sustainability

King's College London endeavours to incorporate sustainability issues into all of its activities. In procurement, our policies require that all projects, that are administered by our office, are considered in terms of impact on environmental, social and economic issues. Issues that are identified are recorded and the specification for products or services are modified, as far as possible, to minimise the negative impacts and maximise the positive impacts.

Procurement Strategy & Services produces and owns the university's Corporate Responsibility Statement and further information is available from the university's Environment and Sustainability Policy.

Procurement Strategy & Services staff

Procurement Strategy & Services staff, along with their contact details and areas of responsibility, are listed below.

If you are unable to see the subject or commodity that you require, please contact Veronica Daly who will allocate your enquiry to an appropriate member of staff.