Crescent Purchasing Consortium Competitors

Established in 1974 to aggregate the procurement spend of our owning local authorities, we continue to help drive efficiency savings through our bulk buying power for product supplies and centralised contract services. Today we offer an extensive range of thousands of products and public sector frameworks, covering everything from office supplies and furniture to energy and HR solutions. This helps our customers save time and money, delivering even better value. We're 100% publicly owned and all our profits are returned to our public sector customers.

We help NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales source and deliver the products they need to provide outstanding patient care. From clinical consumables and capital medical equipment to food and office solutions, we manage a complex supply chain that keeps the NHS running efficiently every day. Each year, we manage more than 8 million orders across 151,000 order points and over 20,000 locations, delivering over 33 million lines of picked goods to the NHS. By consolidating orders from over 2,000 suppliers, we help trusts save time, reduce duplication, and achieve better value for money. Our vision is to enable simpler, smarter, more connected care. Through the products, services, and solutions we provide, we support healthcare organisations to work more efficiently and focus on delivering the best possible outcomes for patients and communities.

ESPO is a customer-focused, public sector-owned professional buying organisation, serving the public sector and education establishments. We’re committed to delivering value by pursuing best practice in procurement, sourcing, supply chain partner support and management, contract management and procurement regulation compliance. Established in 1981, ESPO has the purchasing power to achieve savings to pass on to customers. ESPO is jointly owned by its six member authorities: Leicestershire County Council, Lincolnshire County Council, Cambridgeshire County Council, Norfolk County Council, Warwickshire County Council, and Peterborough City Council. We offer our customers a complete procurement service including a market-leading product catalogue containing 28,000 products, and a wide range of framework agreements with support from our in-house procurement experts. We serve organisations in the following areas: • Education: from nurseries through to universities • Local authorities: including county, city, district and parish councils • Central government bodies, agencies and ministries • The NHS and emergency services such as fire and police