Kent County Council (KCC) governs the county of Kent in England. With a resident population of just over 1.6 million, Kent has the largest population of all of the English counties. Their planned annual expenditure is over £1.1bn on direct services to the public, financing items and management, support services and overheads.

Sourcing Dojo functions as their chosen eAuction solutions provider, typically on tenders greater than £50,000 but also on low-value tenders. Sourcing Dojo has great linear scoring mechanisms for weighted tenders (very useful for OJEU) and excellent customer support and assistance for eSourcing.

KCC have been using Sourcing Dojo for over 2 years. They have used the software to compare suppliers in a number of different sectors such as computer equipment, education programmes, external works and textile recycling. Recently KCC used Sourcing Dojo’s eAuction feature to generate a 40% saving from their existing supplier.

You can read more about this on the Market Dojo blog page here.

The success we have had with Sourcing Dojo has changed the way we think about eSourcing, generating a 40% savings in a couple of hours. We are now always looking for ways that we can produce further savings and compare suppliers with eAuctions. The Sourcing Dojo platform is really easy to use and we know that they are always available to help and provide us with any assistance.

“ Katherine Clark, Procurement, Kent County Council

The eAuction platform provided in Sourcing Dojo has enabled us to drive further efficiencies in our Procurement processes at a time when budgets are under tight constraints. The training and support they have provided has been invaluable and allowed us to run events in complex procurements. We look forward to working with them further on future events to continue to deliver increased efficiencies.

“ Louise Merchant, Procurement Manager, Kent County Council