Services procurement
Gain control of your consultancy spend with our outcome-focused services procurement solution. We combine expert support, trusted suppliers and smart tech to deliver cost savings, improved governance and fast results.
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At Reed Talent Solutions, we support private and public sector organisations in maximising value from consultancy and statement of work (SoW) engagements. Our outcome-based procurement solution ensures you only pay for what is delivered - through a high-performing, pre-approved supply chain and a model tailored to your organisation’s needs.
We understand the growing pressure to reduce costs, increase visibility, and deliver measurable ROI from services procurement. Our procurement experts provide flexible, scalable solutions that improve scope quality, enhance compliance, and introduce governance, without sacrificing agility or innovation.
With our national reach, technical category specialists, and AI-enabled automation, we offer a smarter, more sustainable way to manage your consultancy spend and drive business transformation at pace.
Many organisations struggle with uncontrolled services procurement - misclassified spend, vague scopes of work, over-reliance on time-and-materials engagements, and supplier relationships that lack performance oversight. These challenges drive up costs, introduce compliance risks, and limit commercial impact.
Our team of experts help you tackle these issues head-on. By improving governance, enabling category-level engagement, and providing full visibility over SoW engagements, we transform fragmented spend into a structured, value-driven procurement programme that aligns with business objectives.
Unique outcome-based solutions...
Flexible, outcome-focused procurement built around your business.
Our services procurement solution is built to deliver what you need: control, efficiency, and measurable outcomes.
We combine consultancy triage, technical scoping support, and a trusted supply chain with a tailored delivery model designed to suit your organisation’s scale, complexity, and operating model.
This isn’t about rigid processes, it’s about enabling your internal teams to work smarter with tools and support that fit seamlessly into your workflows.
Whether you need full-service outsourcing or strategic support in specific areas, we flex to meet your requirements.
Expertise and technology at the fore....
We drive smarter procurement through AI and automation.
Alongside our experts, technology underpins every part of our model. From AI-powered supplier matching and automated scope creation to milestone management and contract flows, we remove admin and enable procurement teams to focus on high-value activity.
Our data team helps you build a robust strategy and data dictionary, unlocking increasing levels of automation, insight, and forecasting.
Whether you’re just starting your digital journey or looking to enhance an existing tech stack, we bring the expertise to move you forward.
With you every step of the way...
Our specialist brings procurement and delivery closer together.
We embed procurement expertise and technical knowledge at every stage of the engagement.
Our category leads - experts in IT, change, HR, finance, and more - partner directly with your stakeholders to define scopes and manage performance.
Reed Talent Solutions' customer success teams and senior consultants ensure governance and value creation from day one, while our in-house consultancy desk focuses on developing internal capability through mentoring, training, and knowledge transfer.
Quality, high-performing network...
Tap into a high-performing, flexible, and pre-vetted consultancy network.
We provide access to a curated supply chain of over 1,500 trusted consultancy providers.
These suppliers are performance-managed, pre-vetted, and contracted - ready to deliver outcomes from day one.
We also integrate your existing supplier base, using our AI-driven platform to rank and match the right partners for each engagement. This ensures consistent delivery, competitive pricing, and greater control across all SoW activity.
Delivering value at every stage...
Reed Talent Solutions delivers real commercial outcomes, not just cost control.
Our approach provides tangible benefits - cost avoidance through better scoping, improved delivery through expert oversight, and increased compliance through structured governance.
You will also gain better visibility of spend, improved supplier performance, and the ability to scale delivery at pace.
We focus on long-term transformation, helping you build the internal capability and processes to thrive in a fast-moving business landscape.
Why choose us?
We will work with you to interpret the legislation in light of your business processes and approach. Our experts will then implement processes that allow you to assess and manage engagements in line with the legislation.
We’ll deliver an effective, specialist and tailored sourcing strategy across a range of categories including IT, professional services, finance, energy, and construction.
Our managed sourcing processes cover direct award, known and identified consultants, a mini-tendering process, or full sourcing and tender management. This service includes the full lifecycle of procurement from creating an invitation to tender, answering or clarifying any pre-tender questions, and issuing bids for evaluation.
Through a range of techniques from correct classification of contract versus consultant, effective benchmarking techniques, market and price testing, detailed sourcing, and procurement strategies and milestone management, we can deliver savings on like-for-like engagements of 20-to-30% across your current portfolio.
We have a strong supplier marketplace ready to achieve any solution you may desire. With our wide knowledge and experience we have the right people for your niche requirements.
All our suppliers have completed compliance and onboarding checks to ensure they are of the right calibre to engage in our sourcing processes. Our marketplace is made up of more than 80% SMEs to ensure social value is at the heart of our approach.
Case studies
Bank
Revitalising the recruitment process for a UK financial services client
Food manufacturer
Providing trainee management recruitment for a leading UK food manufacturer
