Over the years, the Hothouse team have been tasked with sourcing products and services as well as negotiating and renegotiating contracts over a wide range of disciplines. Whether you need to:-

• Review your business costs
• Place a contract out to tender
• Source a new product or service
• Improve service and, or quality levels

Hothouse can help with these projects, however intricate.

While managers and staff are busy running their companies, we are aware they often lack time to devote to searching for new suppliers or going through the fine detail of tendering or renegotiation processes. With extensive buying and keen negotiating skills, Hothouse uses these key capabilities to increase service levels, improve quality and substantially reduce costs for our clients. We have saved clients hundreds of thousands of pounds, even by investigating a small but costly area of expenses. To give a flavour for some of the types of successful projects already completed:-

Sourcing Products and Services

• Lead tender and retender processes over a wide range of services
• Having audited major expenditures, given existing suppliers very opportunity to maintain the relationship and re-source when necessary
• Specifying retail packaging items and sourcing new improved quality product from reliable suppliers
• Sourcing emergency supplies
• Developing new designs for own brand ranges
• Conducting feasibility studies
• Securing permanent and interim placements
• Define brief and source IT specialist services
• Finding new premises and negotiating with landlords
• Source semi professional kitchen serving 5 city dining rooms
• Interviewing and short-list property management companies, accounting and legal service providers

Negotiating and renegotiating contracts

• Stripping significant amounts from existing budgets through keen negotiations
• Restructuring businesses
• Specifying and negotiating contracts and service level agreements
• Putting contracts out to tender and managing tender processes
• Renegotiating with existing suppliers and improving service levels
• Developing exit strategies from existing suppliers and seamlessly switching to new sources
• Dealing directly with factories and manufacturers
• Introducing supplier penalty clauses into PLC buying function
• Negotiated office refurbishment projects
• Introducing the British Standard into the UK sunglass market
• Advising on negotiating terms and the monitoring of KPIs of a £230m building project
• Inclusion of risk register items into contracts
• Leading the dealings with legal teams in conflict resolution matters

Often projects require creative thinking to produce the outcome clients are looking for. Our solutions are tailored flexibly to each set of circumstances.

Please click on the contact button to learn how the Hothouse team can help your company save both time and money.

Case Studies

• Retail Packaging Cost Analysis
• Project Manage City PR
• Retail Packaging Review
• Rebranding Retail Packaging