Procurement Intelligence for Procurement & Commercial Leaders
Total visibility across contracts, suppliers and spend decisions.
Procurement and Commercial leaders sit at the heart of public sector transformation — tasked with delivering compliant processes, cost savings, and long-term value across complex supply chains.
But fragmented systems, limited visibility, and outdated information can restrict their ability to make data-led decisions and identify opportunities before it’s too late.
That’s where Be Connected redefines what’s possible.
By unifying contract data, supplier intelligence, and spend trajectories across departments and authorities, Be Connected gives procurement and commercial leaders total visibility — helping them move from reactive to strategic decision-making.
Why Visibility is the Key to Strategic Procurement
Today’s commercial leaders aren’t just managing contracts — they’re shaping organisational value. Be Connected provides the transparency and intelligence needed to:
- Identify duplications, overlaps, and inefficiencies across contracts and suppliers
- Ensure value-for-money outcomes through evidence-backed decision-making
- Collaborate across authorities to leverage joint buying power
- Strengthen compliance and governance with full audit trails
- Align procurement activity with financial and strategic objectives
With Be Connected, procurement and commercial teams gain clarity that enables stronger negotiations, improved supplier relationships, and measurable results.
What Be Connected Delivers for Procurement & Commercial Leaders
Be Connected empowers procurement and commercial leaders to:
- Access a live contract landscape across peers, suppliers, and departments
- Identify cost-saving opportunities hidden within renewals or rolling contracts
- Analyse supplier performance and market activity to inform negotiations
- Validate decisions using real-time market intelligence and peer data
- Track spend trajectories to forecast renewal risks and future pressures
- Demonstrate strategic and financial impact to CFOs and executive teams
Live Example:
Collaboration in Action
When several organisations discovered through Be Connected that they shared upcoming renewals in Contact Centre Services, they collaborated to align specifications and negotiate as a group.
The result: £3.28M in combined annual spend, a 23% average saving, and improved service outcomes — all achieved through shared visibility and commercial alignment.
Building Resilient, Future-Focused Procurement
Be Connected empowers procurement and commercial leaders to:
- Develop data-backed business cases for aggregation and transformation
- Strengthen supplier performance management with real-world intelligence
- Support finance oversight with transparent, cross-functional insights
- Maintain a clear audit trail for compliance and accountability
Procurement and commercial teams can finally move beyond reactive management to proactive, intelligence-led leadership — driving strategy, efficiency, and value for citizens.
Book Your Leadership Briefing
In just 45 minutes, we’ll show you:
- How Be Connected identifies inefficiencies and duplication in real time
- Where collaboration can create immediate financial and operational gains
- How leaders can align procurement intelligence with strategic outcomes
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."