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Welcome to the Blantry Website! Blantry Ltd has been working with blue chip companies since 2005. Blantry can offer support on many aspects of sourcing and procurement .We can provide a commercial focus that delivers tangible results. Experience counts. Any resources brought to bear by Blantry Ltd have significant procurement and commercial experience.Projects typically arise where management have a view on what needs to be done but lack the time or appropriate internal resources to execute.Examples where Blantry can add specialist procurement support.

Professional fees area:

  • Agreeing and implementing a professional fees cost reduction strategy.
  • Professional fees cost data benchmarking,analysis and review.
  • Agreeing best project resourcing strategies.
  • Writing and evaluating Requests for Information/Proposals/Quotations.
  • Negotiating Group deals.
  • From tender design to vendor selection and award of work (see Sunday Business Post and other articles in publications section).
  • Cost and risk reduction in the procurement of any services from the 'Big 4' accountancy firms.
  • Ensuring professional fees are both capped and deliverables dependent.
  • Injecting appropriate competitive tension into all significant assignments or ongoing arrangements.
  • See sample of successful professional services procurement assignments
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    Legal fees

  • Reducing legal fees ( see Irish Independent article in publications section)
  • Appointing suitable legal panels
  • Agreeing and implementing legal fees cost reduction strategy.
  • Legal fees benchmarking,analysis and review.
  • Agreeing best resourcing strategies for legal projects.
  • Risk reduction in the procurement of legal services.
  • From tender design to vendor selection and award of work.
  • Ensuring Legal fees are both capped and deliverables dependent
  • Using all available leverage to maximum advantage
  • Blantry Ltd and Brief Counsel Ltd,specialists in the selection and management of external legal counsel have have combined to help Irish companies drive legal services cost reduction
  • Other specialist procurement activities

  • Agreeing,documenting and implementing company specific procurement processes.
  • Agreeing and implementing category strategies.
  • Cost reduction program planning and execution.
  • Tendering goods and services.
  • Negotiation support.
  • Support where process, internal customers and vendors meet.
  • Service level definition (SLA)agreement and review.
  • Outsource vendor management and problem solving.
  • Design and implementation of vendor rating systems.
  • Implementing and managing Vendor Key Performance indicators (KPIs)
  • See sample of successful specialist procurement assignments .
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