Public Sector Procurement - MCAS Framework

Moorhouse and its partners – the Moorhouse Consortium - are directly accessible through the Buying Solutions Management Consultancy & Accounting Services (MCAS) Framework Agreement. This provides public sector organisations with a procurement channel offering, quick access to services, no financial limits, competitive pricing and many other benefits. 

The Moorhouse Consortium provides the following services on the MCAS framework:

• Organisation and Change Management  - Consultancy advice on the development of appropriate solutions to support achievement of a new or existing business strategy. Continued support during the implementation of change in an advisory role.
  • For further detail around the Moorhouse Consortium Organisational Change offering, click here.
• Procurement Consultancy - Consultancy advice on procurement and contract management strategies, policies, processes and organisation of the function or on a specific procurement project (at any stage of the lifecycle) for goods/services including outsourcing support and PPP/PFI advice.
  • For further detail around the Moorhouse Consortium Procurement offering, click here.
• Project & Programme Management Consultancy - Consultancy advice on programme and project management strategies, policies, processes and organisation of the function.  Advice may also relate to advising on specific ongoing programmes and one-off projects.
  • For further detail around the Moorhouse Consortium Project and Programme Management offering, click here.

The Moorhouse Consortium

Moorhouse has created a bespoke Consortium to provide high quality, value for money services to respond to the needs of our public sector clients.  Our combined team of 1300 UK consultants (8000 globally) provides equivalent scale, expert skills, and breadth of disciplines offered by the big firms, yet with the added benefits of our more tailored, personal approach and the deep specialist expertise of our individual partners. 

Our Consortium seeks to break the mould of conventional consortium management. We have built a strong and genuine partnership across the organisations, leveraging the best of our individual skills; we aspire to manage it in an exemplary manner, within an open, effective and efficient framework.  This enables Customers to be provided with the best possible solution to their requirements from across the consortium.

Consortium Members

The Moorhouse Consortium comprises eleven organisations.  These organisations were selected as respected experts in their specialism with a proven delivery track record, supplementing the scope of services of the partnership, and each demonstrating a like-minded approach and mindset to the provision of professional services. 

The following lists the partners we are working with and outlines their specialities:

Moorhouse		Moorhouse is an award winning, dynamic and vibrant programme and project management delivery and advisory services firm. With deep public sector expertise and experience, their highly skilled consultants help clients deliver complex transformation through well organised programme delivery, a collaborative working style and a focus  on developing in-house capability. Moorhouse is the Consortium Lead and Administrator.
BiP Solutions		BiP Solutions is a market leader in the provision of procurement solutions. As a result of 25 years experience in this sector BiP Solutions has become respected authority on all aspects of procurement and the supply chain - advising thousands of public and private sector organisations in the UK, Europe and across the globe on achieving best practice in this complex and changing environment.
buyingTeam		buyingTeam creates sustained profit improvement for clients by transforming their indirect procurement.  Clients benefit from our leveraged category knowledge, process expertise and proprietary technology, through long-term partnership working.
DS+A		DS+A has a team of expert analysts with a corporate best-in-class track record of expertise in infrastructure project assignments. Key skills include; business case assessment, project management, procurement strategy, investment appraisal, quantitative risk/opportunity analysis and project lifecycle planning. The team have both public and private sector project experience including conventional procurement and PPP/PFI delivery strategies.
ERM		Environmental Resources Management (ERM) is a leading global provider of environmental, health and safety, risk, and social consulting services. We deliver innovative solutions for business and government clients, helping them understand and manage their impacts on the world around them
Hay Group		Hay Group is a global management consulting firm that works with leaders to transform strategy into reality. They develop talent, organise people to be more effective and motivate them to perform at their best. Their focus is on making change happen and helping people and organisations realise their potential. Hay Group clients are from the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, and represent diverse business challenges.
Lane4		Lane4 partners with business and HR leaders to deliver high performance. With a unique heritage in elite sport and business performance, they provide organisational development services across a range of industries including broad experience in the public sector.  Their expertise fall into four core areas: Organisational change and leadership development, Training and skills development, Measurement and evaluation and Creative internal communication.
L.E.K. Consulting		L.E.K. Consulting is an international strategy consultancy, founded in the UK, that works with leading public sector organisations to rapidly resolve their most complex challenges. The firm helps balance the often conflicting priorities inherent in delivering policy objectives, accelerating decision-making by applying significant analytical capability, deep economic expertise and detailed strategic thinking, supported by extensive public and  private sector experience.
Molten		Molten provides business change and transformation advisory and delivery services within the Energy, Financial Services and Retail & Industrial Sectors.
PIPC		PIPC is a leading global project and programme management consultancy responsible for some of the largest, highest profile business and IT transformations in the public and private sector. PIPC focuses on the planning, mobilisation and implementation of change, with specific expertise in the design and delivery of transformation, commissioning and efficiency programmes within local and national government
RedRay		RedRay Consulting Ltd is a specialist risk, commercial, procurement and project management consultancy providing services to public and private sector clients in the transport infrastructure sector.
Suiko		By working practically with their clients’ people, Suiko enable behaviour change and develop the clients capability in Operational Excellence. They use a methodology that combines a cycle of: understanding the compelling business reason to change to achieve profitable growth (Suiko Why™), embedding the right practices - tools and behaviours (Suiko What™) and using enablers that accelerate and sustain the change – structured around framework, tools, behaviours and making it happen (Suiko How™)
TPI		TPI is the world’s leading advisor on all aspects of sourcing business processes and IT services, from strategy to service and supplier management. We help implement substantial and sustainable improvements in support operations through the best combination of outsourcing, in-sourcing, shared services and internal service optimisation.

For further information visit the MCAS Framework on the Buying Solutions website by clicking here.

You can also download a pdf flyer about the Moorhouse Consortium by clicking here.

If you would like to talk to us call on the number below. Alternatively, click on the consultants email address, provide us with your details and we will call you back. We look forward to speaking to you. Contact: Email: Tel: Mark Warren markwarren@moorhouseconsulting.com +44 (0) 20 3004 4482