Procurement Intelligence for CIOs
Public sector CIOs face increasing pressure to modernise systems, manage data securely, and ensure technology delivers measurable value. Yet, with siloed platforms and fragmented procurement processes, IT leaders often lack the cross-department visibility they need to support smarter, connected decisions.
That’s where Be Connected bridges the gap between technology, procurement, and finance — turning data into strategic intelligence.
By consolidating contract, supplier, and spend information across authorities and departments, Be Connected empowers CIOs to see how technology investments align with financial and operational priorities, ensuring digital transformation truly delivers value-for-money.
Why CIOs Need Clearer Visibility Across Systems and Spend
Technology touches every department — but without oversight, duplication and inefficiency can go unnoticed. Be Connected provides the clarity CIOs need to ensure digital investments are efficient, aligned, and strategic:
- Identify duplicate software licences and service overlaps across departments
- Gain a single view of cloud, data centre, and digital service contracts
- Strengthen governance, compliance, and cybersecurity visibility
- Align technology spend trajectories with finance and procurement goals
- Support cross-department collaboration for shared infrastructure and savings
With Be Connected, CIOs can move from reactive system management to proactive digital leadership.
What Be Connected Delivers for CIOs
Be Connected is the only platform giving public sector IT leaders the power to connect procurement data with technology outcomes. CIOs can:
- Map technology investments across multiple directorates or authorities
- Spot opportunities to consolidate overlapping digital service contracts
- Compare vendor performance and renewal patterns across peers
- Align technology roadmaps with financial oversight and procurement strategy
- Track spend trajectories to forecast renewal risks and cost pressures
- Support data-driven collaboration across IT, finance, and commercial teams
Live Example:
Smarter Technology Oversight
An NHS Trust using Be Connected identified overlapping cloud and data storage contracts across three departments, all with similar renewal dates.
By consolidating these agreements, the Trust reduced overall costs by 17%, improved data security, and simplified vendor management — proving that visibility and coordination deliver measurable digital efficiency.
Future-Proofing Digital Investment
Be Connected helps CIOs turn fragmented data into integrated intelligence by:
- Aligning technology procurement with financial and strategic goals
- Tracking contract renewal cycles across all digital services
- Supporting sustainability and carbon reporting through unified data visibility
- Building collaborative frameworks for shared service delivery
Public sector CIOs can finally see how technology spend connects to strategy — ensuring every investment advances transformation, compliance, and citizen outcomes.
Book Your CIO Briefing
In just 45 minutes, we’ll show you:
- How Be Connected exposes duplication and inefficiency in your IT contract estate
- Where collaboration can reduce costs and improve service delivery
- How cross-department data visibility supports smarter digital decisions
Hear What Our Customers Have to Say
Mark Evans
"As a CFO, visibility of spend trajectory is vital for shaping our medium-term financial plans. Be Connected helped us identify overlapping contract areas across departments and provided immediate insight into potential aggregation opportunities. In one instance, we discovered three separate mobile service contracts across different teams that could be consolidated – delivering an estimated £320k in savings over two years. The ability to view historical spend alongside renewal dates has become an indispensable planning tool."
Sarah Moore
"Using Be Connected prior to launching our recent data centre procurement gave us a distinct advantage. The platform allowed us to review similar contracts awarded by other councils, understand pricing trends, and spot alternative supplier strategies we hadn’t considered. It encouraged early engagement with internal IT and finance teams, fostering cross-department collaboration that improved our specification and ultimately our evaluation criteria. We've moved from reactive to informed and strategic procurement."
Jonathan Rafiq
"When planning the renewal of our Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, Be Connected enabled us to see how neighbouring councils structured their licensing and deployment models. This intelligence supported our business case, especially when benchmarking costs and negotiating with suppliers. It’s not just a tool for procurement; it’s a research partner that supports ICT leadership in making aligned and cost-aware decisions."
Nicola Hay
"I initially viewed Be Connected as a procurement tool, but its cross-functional value became clear quickly. Our finance team now uses it during budget setting to interrogate recurring third-party costs and spot duplication. The visual spend trajectory helps us challenge assumptions internally and hold budget holders to account with external validation. It’s helped shift our culture from compliance-focused to value-driven."
Leon Walters
"Be Connected doesn’t just show what’s happening – it shows what should be happening. We used it to lead a joint procurement for telephony services across multiple departments after discovering our current fragmented approach cost us 18% more than the regional average. Seeing how others structured similar contracts gave us confidence in moving forward with an aggregated model."
Rajita Singh
"ICT often ends up responding late in the procurement cycle – but Be Connected brings us in at the right time. For cloud renewals, we used it to align our roadmap with upcoming procurement windows and to flag supplier performance issues from other authorities. It’s helped us become proactive contributors rather than reactive sign-offs."