Business Process Outsourcing Services

Procurement outsourcing is the transfer of specified key procurement activities relating to sourcing and supplier management to a third party- either to reduce overall costs or to tighten an organization’s focus on its core competencies.

Outsourcing in Public Procurement in Africa

We observe in our travels, that world-class organizations have continued to leverage technology and business best practices to widen the gap between their performances and that of their peers. In recent years, they have shifted focus to business process outsourcing (BPO) strategies to drive higher performance. Pursuant to this, African regions where public procurement practices and processes are significantly hindered by systemic problems, have increasingly begun to recognize the benefit of introducing BPO strategies in addressing and containing such problems.

HSL can help you assess, plan, and implement Procurement Outsourcing.

HSL offers procurement advisory programs and procurement outsourcing consulting services that drive measurable improvements in our clients’’ operational efficiency and effectiveness.

Our procurement outsourcing consulting is informed by our renowned benchmarking and international best practices repository built on benchmarking engagements with the world’s leading organizations.

Leveraging rich empirical data and years of hands-on experience, HSL’s can help you with all aspects of procurement strategy development and implementation, including the benchmarking of your current operations; evaluation of organizational options such as shared services, outsourcing or offshoring; supply chain strategy formation; business processes reengineering; and talent management for the procurement function.

Knowledge & Expertise

Services are provided by a good crop of professional staff with:

• Extensive knowledge, skills, strategies, techniques, and tools on the World Bank procurement procedures and practices;
• In-depth knowledge of the workings of all World Bank – Assisted projects, in terms of Needs Assessment, Appraisal Documentation, Project Conceptualization, Project procurement planning/scheduling, implementation, management, monitoring & evaluation, procurement audit, Mid-Term Review (MTR), Project Completion Report (PCR);
• Sound working knowledge of client/project needs, project cycle, goals, objectives, strategies, project types and their attendant requirements (procurement inclusive);
• Area knowledge and experience of projects’ profiles and types in Sub-Saharan Africa particularly Nigeria, and attendant challenges and peculiarities.

The sensitive nature of procurement activities relative to the donor agencies informed HSL modeling and patterning of its procurement practices and procedures to International best practices for the procurement of goods, works and services, under the IBRD Loans and IDA Credits of the World Bank, in tune with global standards.