Procurement & Supply Chain Advisory
As pioneers in the procurement advisory space, GEF brings unmatched methodologies to transform your strategic procurement outcomes.
Our Services
GEF Consulting Inc. ("GEF") offers expert Procurement Advisory services, a core competency grounded in over 27 years of dedicated focus on Government and healthcare. This practice is specifically centered on Transformational Procurement in Government and covers all aspects of the procurement lifecycle.
Included services are:
- Strategic Procurement Planning and Procurement Strategy Development.
- RFx Creation (including RFPs, RFBs, RFSQs), ensuring documents are well-designed, written, and fit for purpose, allowing for innovation where desired.
- Market Research, including Value for Money assessment and Benchmarking capabilities, and identifying viable potential solutions and providers. This includes curated research on specific vendor spaces (like ERP or managed services) and can be used to inform budgeting or justify sourcing approaches.
- Procurement Assurance Services.
- Evaluation Support Services, including developing evaluation methodology, criteria, and supporting the evaluation process.
- Contract Negotiations Support
- Providing On-Demand Procurement Expertise and On-Tap Procurement Expertise (Virtual Offering) as an extension of the client's internal team.
- Advising and consulting on outsourced and managed service models across various functions like IT, HR, purchasing, and accounting.
- Developing comprehensive requirements (business, technical, functional, non-functional) that are clear, consistent, and suitable for procurement documents.
- Conducting Business Process Assessment and Design as necessary input for procurement initiatives.
- Providing Fairness Advisory and Monitoring Services throughout the procurement process.
- Offering Procurement, Contract, & Negotiation Training.
- GEF provides these services across various industries within the public sector, including Healthcare, Energy, Information Technology (IT), Business, and Cyber Security.
Our Capabilities
GEF's capabilities in Procurement Advisory are built on a deep understanding of the public sector and a strategic, methodology-driven approach:
Deep Public Sector Specialization
With over 25 years as a "go to" independent consultancy for leading public sector institutions, GEF possesses a strict niche focus on Government and healthcare.
We have extensive experience with OPS, BPS, and federal/provincial governments across Canada, and international clients, Ministries, and organizations across Europe and Asia. This provides an unparalleled understanding of public sector procurement rules, procedures, policies, culture, and governance.
Strategic & Transformational Approach
Our approach goes beyond tactical process execution. We focus on the up-front strategy, ensuring procurement goals align with the client's overall strategic vision and business objectives.
We treat procurement as an integrated part of the business process, not a siloed activity.
This approach ensures requirements are crafted for successful outcomes and substantially de-risks the entire procurement process, aiming for multiple desired viable proponents and favourable resultant agreements.
We help clients clearly define the "WHY" behind a procurement.
Proprietary Methodology (agileprocurement™)
This methodology underpins our practice and is specifically designed for public sector procurement.
AgileprocurementTM expedites RFx construction and enables the delivery of higher-quality RFPs under accelerated timelines.
AgileprocurementTM combines elements of Waterfall and Agile for speed to market and incremental deliverables, while being flexible and adaptable to unique client situations.
Proprietary Tools & Accelerators
We leverage a suite of proprietary tools, templates, checklists, and intellectual capital built over 20+ years. This includes tools for evaluation weighting and workshops, pricing forms, detailed methodologies for requirements elicitation, business process re-engineering tools, and rapid sourcing assessment methods.
Our Benefits
Our strategic, de-risked approach significantly increases the likelihood of achieving successful procurements, attracting viable and desirable proponents, and resulting in agreements favourable to the client.
Contact us to learn more about how our strategic procurement and supply chain advisory can transform your organization.
Case Studies
Digital First Strategy
As part of the Government of Ontario's "Digital First" Strategy, the Ontario Government embarked on a multi-year Healthcare Navigation and Telehealth Service transformation (“Health811”) that acts as a one-stop 'Digital Front Door' to Ontario's health care system, offering a place where all 14+ million Ontarians can access health information, advice and initial triage in order to become connected to publicly funded health care services.
As the initiative's Strategic Procurement Advisor, GEF provided complex procurement-related guidance associated with the planning, design, development, and implementation of this innovative procurement, including eliciting key information through Early Market Engagement (a 2-day international Market Sounding exercise); formulation of a Request for Qualifications (RFSQ); advising on Competitive Dialogue /Commercially Confidential Meetings (CCMs); creation of the core Request for Proposals (RFP), as well as the subsequent evaluation and supporting the contract negotiations with a sophisticated vendor consortium compromised on national Canadian firms and international IT vendors.
Energy Relief Program
A province’s energy regulator was seeking to procure a managed service provider to develop and deliver a solution to provide the ongoing hosting, operation, and maintenance of the province’s electricity bill relief program for low income households. Since the client organization was facing a very complex business and IT procurement and needed to get the RFP to market within a very short timeframe, they retained GEF to help them achieve a successful outcome by providing the services required to support the entire procurement lifecycle, from requirements development, RFB build, evaluation & contract award.
Healthcare Solution Procurement
GEF was retained to recover the procurement phase of a very large healthcare solution and services procurement.
The Client was seeking to procure an innovative and flexible best-of-breed hosted and managed Drug Adjudication and Formulary Management solution in order to achieve key strategic goals. Their goals included implementing a new customer centric business model that would achieve adjudication excellence, that would support their strategy of "digital first", and that enabled sound financial stewardship.
The Client realized their approach to the project was not aligned to their strategic goals, and they selected GEF to rapidly implement a new approach and methodology to produce a high-quality procurement that would achieve the desired strategic outcomes.
