21-1594 - Category Management and Strategic Sourcing Implementation Consulting Services

The City of Calgary is seeking a qualified consulting firm to further accelerate The City’s existing Solutions for Achieving Value and Excellence (SAVE) program. The City delivers a wide range of high-quality services to citizens every day. Faced with a sustained economic downturn and reduced revenue and funding, The City must find a new balance between streamlining activities, maintaining safety and protecting the environment, while still providing the quality of services that citizens want and expect. 
Category management and strategic sourcing provide avenues towards streamlining procurement activities and generating cost saving strategies.
This project anticipates the following sequence of tasks:

1. Assess current state – assess the efforts taken so far by The City.
2. Establish a draft roadmap in collaboration with The City – provide an overall roadmap of the project with the timelines as per the overarching City strategy.
3. Identify, Evaluate, and Select categories to pilot, in accordance with Roadmap;
4. Run a pilot together with The City.
5. Determine key performance indicators and ways to measure savings, together with the suggested frequency and process for capturing these measurements; and
6. Provide a full recommendation- include processes, manpower required, communications, etc.