Berkeley helped Land Securities, the largest supplier of commercial property in the UK, select a set of Preferred Delivery Partners, increasing the reliability, speed and quality of their IS delivery programme and reducing costs by 30%
Where were they?
The IS department was looking for a step-change in IS project delivery capability in order to improve the quality of programme delivery to the business units. This was a critical departmental objective.
External expertise was needed to help design and deliver a set of commercial frameworks that would support the selection and engagement of external Delivery Partners to support this objective.
The selection and commercial negotiation process needed to be executed right first time and be completed in time for a planned departmental restructuring exercise.
How did Berkeley help?
Berkeley project managed the partner selection process to choose a set of Preferred Delivery Partners to support the required increase in IS delivery programme reliability, speed and quality.
Berkeley defined the approach to requirements gathering, coordinated content production of the selection documents, defined and managed the end-to-end partner selection and evaluation process, and managed the commercial and legal negotiations
A novel selection approach was designed in order to minimise the end-to-end selection process time and ensure that the right organisations were chosen to be partners.
Where are they now?
The client requirements were published on-time and recognised by the candidate firms as being of a very high quality. This led to responses being consistent in their structure resulting in a straightforward evaluation process and increased client brand-value in the marketplace.
A set of high quality commercial frameworks were designed and negotiated with each delivery partner organisation in time to support the planned departmental restructuring.
Following transition to the new suppliers, overall quality was increased and fixed costs reduced by 30%.
“Berkeley really helped us get on top of and overcome the challenge of switching to a third party supply model for development skills. They produced a set of strategic recommendations and then successfully implemented them within the practical context of the IS department. We have gained real value from the breadth of experience on offer through their consultants.”
Nick Foster, Chief Information Officer, Land Securities, 2007