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| Tony Merrill | ||
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| Professional Associations | ||
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| Associate of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Member of the Institute of Directors | ||
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| Career history | ||
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| Consultancy Recent consultancy projects include the development of procurement strategies and plans for a number of clients in the public and private sectors. Called upon to provide ICT category expertise in the social housing, education, telecoms and banking sectors. | ||
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| National Audit Office Conducted value-for-money assessments on the culture, media, sport and further education college sectors and was pivotal in the development of a procurement audit toolkit to be used by the NAO to assess value for money and procurement functions across the public sector, in effect setting the benchmark for the way public procurement is done. | ||
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| Cabinet Office Member of the team implementing the Government’s shared services agenda, in particular for the provision of a fully managed and hosted content management solution for a number of departments including Dept. for Education and Skills, Dept. of Health and the Cabinet Office. | ||
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| FirstCaribbean International Bank Established a procurement function spanning some fifteen countries in the Caribbean region, and developed procurement and contract management policies and processes. Reducing the client’s overheads by $14.2m. | ||
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| Metropolitan Police Developed procurement strategies, improved contract templates and negotiated a number of ICT and R&D related contracts. | ||
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| BT Commercial Manager, negotiating sales contracts and supporting major bids in the public and private sectors, and advised a number of units within BT on service and commercial issues. | ||
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| Logica Senior Procurement Manager, providing commercial support to numerous bids in both public and private sectors and procurement support to a number of divisions in the South East. | ||
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| Racal Telecom Responsible for contracts covering telecoms infrastructure (£200m), bandwidth (£86m) and services (£20m) for numerous projects and companies within and external to the railway industry. | ||
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| ICL Purchasing Controller, managed a procurement office supporting eight divisions in the Thames Valley and London with a spend of £45m+ and savings achieved by team around £5m. Became the principal buyer in ICL for all facilities/property related contracts, achieving savings of over 20% involving building refurbishments, capital and minor works. |
