Crescent Purchasing Consortium Limited

How to win their contracts

Measured from Crescent Purchasing Consortium Limited's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 28 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 24 of their tenders.
• They publish about 2.4 tenders a month, measured over 26 months of history.
• Half of their 14 awarded contracts are worth £25m or less — size your bid to that range.
• Most of their buying falls in software package and information systems, construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security.
• Their most frequent suppliers are Stone Technologies Ltd trading as Converge Technology Solutions, Softcat PLC, Misco Technologies Limited, Odyssey Education Ltd, boxxe, Academia Ltd, Phoenix Software Ltd, Sync, Levett Consultancy Ltd, Insight Direct UK Ltd, INTEGRATED TECH LTD, European Electronique, Bromcom Computers Plc (3), Seddon Construction Limited, Walter Carefoot & Sons (Construction) Ltd., EFT Construction Ltd, Senate Mech Ltd, Whitfield & Brown (Developments) Ltd, Aptus Construction Ltd, FRANK ROGERS (BUILDING CONTRACTOR) LIMITED, Esh Construction Limited, ASHFIELD PROJECTS (YORKSHIRE) LTD, GRAHAM, Galliford Try Construction Limited, Compass Developments (NE) Ltd, CBES, GMI CONSTRUCTION GROUP PLC, RHODAR INDUSTRIAL SERVICES LIMITED, A.BUCKLER HAULAGE LIMITED, MBC Building Contractors, GLC PROJECTS LTD, DSM ( (3), idverde Ltd (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.