We’re not just a framework provider. We’re also able to provide customers with technical support services pre, and post procurement.

Our Technical Partnerships team use their experience and skills to help our customers with a number of items to get you procurement ready.

We also offer support to customers with their contracts post-award. SEC can be on hand to attend pre-contract meetings and then yearly contract meetings thereafter. This helps to ensure that your contract once procured through us performs well from procurement to completion.

We’ve explained different aspects of out technical support services in more detail below.

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We’re able to help you with:

Specification support

Cost model support

Section 20 advice

Contractual terms

Technical documentation

Contract support post-award

Contract Management Toolkit

When using our frameworks you receive support and guidance from us throughout the process. To help ensure the resulting contracts performs well we’ve produced this brilliant free resource for our network. The toolkit has been designed to promote a consistent approach to effective contract management across your organisation. It includes tools, techniques and templates to support you at both a strategic and operational level.

The toolkit includes advice on all stages of the contract lifecycle – from pre-procurement to completion.

It’s comprehensive and we recommend that you read and consider at least the first two chapters before you begin the procurement process.

If you’d like to speak to us about the toolkit in more detail our Technical Partnerships Manager, Jenna Hicken is on hand to help.  Jenna can book a 30 minute call with yourself to talk through the toolkit’s key benefits and how you can make it work for your organisation. Please contact her here – jenna.hicken@southeastconsortium.org.uk

Specification Support

In many cases our customers have their specification in hand ready for procurement. Sometimes however, Members approach us for support when they do not have this ready to go – in these cases we’re more than happy and able to help.

We’re able to adapt or write your specification to ensure that the document meets with your procurement aims. This service ranges from meeting with our Technical Partnerships team to help the write your specification, or it can include SEC employing the services of a consultant to complete the specification for you. In addition we can facilitate this service for bespoke procurements outside of our frameworks.

If you’d like to learn more about our technical support services please contact a member of the team today – contact us. 

Cost Model Support

Similarly to our specification support, we’re able to help customers who do not have their cost model ready for procurement. In this case we can help to review your price model to ensure its fit for purpose. Alternatively we can employ to services of a consultant to develop the pricing model.

If you’d like to learn more about our technical support services please contact a member of the team today – contact us. 

Section 20 Advice

We’re regularly advising customers on their Section 20 consultations and have prepared a number of documents which may be of use to you.

If you’d like to learn more about our technical support services please contact a member of the team today – contact us. 

Fire Door Advice

Our Technical Partnerships team frequently offer fire door advice to customers. The team is made up of experienced surveyors who are on hand to answer your technical questions and help with your specifications.  They’ve compiled a list of useful documents which may be of interest:

If you’d like to learn more about our technical support services please contact a member of the team today – contact us. 

Other Advice

Our Technical Partnerships team can also advise, from an operational perspective, on how to comply with Section 20 consultation, comment on contractual terms and advise on how to approach the production of technical documents to meet the aims and objectives of your organisation.