Flexible Procurement for Public Sector Buyers
Bloom’s end-to-end managed procurement service seamlessly connects the public sector with fast, responsive professional service suppliers. Through NEPRO³, our fully managed public sector procurement framework, buyers are already achieving faster results, engaging with innovative, transformative vendors, and staying aligned with the UK Procurement Act 2023.
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Public sector buyers shouldn’t have to endure slow, complex, or resource-intensive procurement processes, especially when seeking innovative, digitally enabled, and transformative professional service vendors. Bloom helps buyers across local authorities, NHS trusts, housing associations, schools, and central government access a modern, dynamic marketplace not only quickly but in full compliance with outcome-led guidelines.
Why Public Sector Organisations Choose Bloom For Procurement
Bloom provides a single, streamlined route to professional services in the public sector.
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Speed
Reduce time-to-award to as little as 14 days through our accelerated, compliant route to market.
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Managed Service
Our team manages the end-to-end process, from defining requirements to contract award, as well as supplier performance, so you can focus on improving outcomes.
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Delivery
Buyer success should be tied closely to project results, not process. By combining robust contract management with outcome-based evaluation, we support buyers in only paying for what is delivered. We help public sector buyers turn ambition into tangible results.
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Choice
Choose from thousands of pre-accredited suppliers, including innovative SMEs. Buyers can work with confidence knowing that every supplier meets our rigorous quality, financial, and compliance standards. This approach opens procurement opportunities to diverse businesses and helps public bodies achieve greater social value and local economic growth.
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Social Value
Our procurement approach and neutral vendor frameworks are built around your immediate needs, not legacy processes or systems. Organisations can rely on our streamlined processes to guarantee maximum value for their local communities.
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Experience
Our team of procurement professionals has experience within each category of the public sector. They can manage a single project or a full portfolio for your organisation.
NEPRO³ has been designed as a modern, transformation-ready route to market that enables buyers to act quickly and confidently.
Simplifying the Procurement Process For Buyers
Through Bloom’s NEPRO³ framework, buyers can procure professional services faster, without lengthy tendering or complex vendor reviews. Our process ensures you remain fully compliant, maintain transparency, and create competitive value, but at speed.
Here’s how it works:
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Step 1
Our team will help you to produce an accurate requirement that fully captures your organisation’s needs and outcomes. Share your project goals and success measures.
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Step 2
We find your suppliers. Bloom invites suitable, pre-accredited suppliers to compete via direct awards or compliant mini-competitions. You choose the best-fit supplier from a shortlist.
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Step 3
Bloom manages due diligence, payments, and supplier delivery through to completion.
The result? Faster direct award and mini-competition procurement, reduced risk, and measurable results that align with your strategic priorities.
Improve Your Public Sector Procurement Today
For Buyers
Looking to procure professional services quickly and compliantly through a proven public sector procurement route? Find out more about the NEPRO3 Public sector procurement framework.
Support for All Procurement Teams
Bloom is increasingly supporting a wide range of public sector buyers from across the UK, providing fast procurement routes for councils, central government, emergency services, and more. Specific examples include:
With Bloom’s procurement frameworks, public sector organisations can enjoy dedicated account management that helps buyers manage day-to-day procurement. We can also help during staff shortages or high-volume periods. In both cases, our team provides the expertise, governance, and technology to simplify, accelerate, and enhance the effectiveness of public sector procurement. It’s no surprise that buyers have come to trust us to secure the professional services they need to move forward with transformative projects.
SME Inclusion & Innovation
SME procurement in public sector organisations is widely acknowledged as a challenge. Innovative, fast-growing SMEs have traditionally found the tender response activity required to win public sector work disincentivising, with repeated procurement exercises often viewed as excessive overhead for businesses seeking growth.
The good news is that Bloom makes it easy for public sector buyers to reach these organisations. They only have to become a pre-accredited supplier with us once, which is an attractive proposition for agile specialists delivering innovative technology-enabled results.
Compliant & Auditable Buying
Compliance is built into every stage of Bloom’s NEPRO³ Framework. As a neutral vendor framework, Bloom provides a transparent, fully auditable process that aligns with all major current UK legislation and guidelines.
- The UK Procurement Act
- The National Procurement Policy Statement (NPPS)
- Public Contracts Regulations (PCR 2015)
- OJEU Rules
Using the framework provides a full audit trail, document control, real-time tracking and detailed reporting for direct award and mini-competition procurement. With Bloom, buyers can demonstrate accountability and compliance without slowing delivery, every project, every time.
Who Is Already Using Bloom
Across the UK, Bloom is trusted by a diverse range of public sector buyers to deliver smarter, faster, and fully compliant procurement. Our framework supports buyers across local government, healthcare, education, housing, policing, and central government. Our growing list of clients includes the Cabinet Office, the Home Office, Durham County Council, Birmingham City Council, HM Revenue & Customs, and the Metropolitan Police.
Bloom provides all our clients with the flexibility and assurance needed to deliver measurable outcomes. Buyers choose Bloom because our public sector procurement frameworks make it easier to engage innovative SMEs, manage supplier performance, and demonstrate compliance with the Procurement Act.
Whether the goal is digital transformation, improved community services, or operational efficiency, Bloom’s managed approach ensures every project delivers value, transparency, and lasting public benefit.
“I chose to work with Bloom as I liked the idea of outcome-based projects. It’s so much more efficient, as it’s a compliant process without the need to go through the OJEU process, as it’s still competitive.”
Ariana Beatty | University of Sussex
“Bloom helped us find suppliers in a rather niche market with the skills and expertise we required, which we would have otherwise found very difficult to source.”
Colin Ansell | London Borough of Newham
"Through Bloom and NEPRO we were able to access the right supplier in a short time frame."
Richard Howroyd | Bath & North East Somerset Council
Outcome-Led Success
At Bloom, we align our work with the UK National Procurement Policy Statement and believe buyer success should be tied closely to project results, not process. This is why our end-to-end managed service and procurement platforms ensure every stage of buyer activity, from specification to completion, is aligned with measurable results. By combining robust contract management with outcome-based evaluation, we help public sector buyers turn ambition into tangible success.
Below are a few examples of how our buyer services have supported public bodies to achieve meaningful, lasting outcomes:
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Bloom helped buyers in the ‘blue light’ sector retire legacy IT systems and migrate securely to a modern, more effective Cloud environment.
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A major Bloom client sourced data modelling consultancy services through our framework, which supported leaders in measuring and enhancing productivity.
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Central Government buyers used Bloom to find the professional service support they needed to maintain infrastructure and frontline services while a major transformation project was underway.
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Local Authority buyers found a housing project delivery partner through Bloom’s procurement framework to reduce emissions, improve energy efficiency, and meet environmental targets.
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A Government-owned not-for-profit partnered with Bloom to find and contract a change management programme provider to enhance their workforce wellbeing.
In every engagement, Bloom acts as a trusted intermediary, ensuring that every stage of the buying process remains aligned with compliance rules, best practice and the outcome-led priorities of the new public sector procurement regime. We allow public sector buyers to focus on defining what success looks like, while we support the rest.
Frequently asked questions
View all FAQsYes. Bloom’s Services are fully compliant with the Procurement Act 2023, as well as historic OJEU regulations, Crown Commercial Service (CCS) guidelines, and other relevant public sector procurement standards.
Absolutely. Bloom operates a transparent model with no fees for public sector buyers. Our service is funded through a flat, fixed management fee paid by suppliers. Bloom also provides comprehensive end-to-end contract management, a feature that many other procurement providers lack.
Bloom’s marketplace connects buyers with innovative SMEs and specialist consultancies not typically part of existing public sector frameworks. We give public sector buyers access to new talent, niche expertise, and outcome-focused innovation that might otherwise be missed.
Bloom’s goal is to save public sector procurement buyers time, not add to their workload. We handle the entire sourcing process, providing a shortlist of three to five fully vetted suppliers. That means less administration for your team, not more.
Bloom is designed for procuring professional services, not off-the-shelf products. However, we do support lots of buyers seeking bespoke design or product development services.
Yes. Supporting SME inclusion in public procurement is one of Bloom’s core objectives. Our platform makes it easier for smaller, innovative businesses to compete on a level playing field.
Bloom’s streamlined processes, pre-accredited supplier base, and managed service approach mean public sector buyers can typically award a project in around two weeks.
Of course! It’s where we excel. Bloom’s services cover a broad range of technology, digital transformation, data strategy, AI, and automation requirements.
Unlike self-managed procurement platforms, Bloom delivers a fully managed service, ensuring faster, more confident, and outcome-led delivery.
Both. Bloom offers both direct award and mini-competition routes to market. Buyers can use direct award for urgent or specialist needs, or run a compliant mini-competition for broader value comparison.
Nothing. Bloom’s service is completely free for public sector buyers. Our transparent financial model applies a flat management fee to each project, payable by the supplier.
Improve Your Public Sector Procurement Today
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For Buyers
Looking to procure professional services quickly and compliantly through a proven public sector procurement route? Find out more about joining the NEPRO3 Public sector procurement framework.
Become a buyer
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For Suppliers
Want to join the NEPRO³ marketplace and access public sector opportunities? Find out more about our supplier onboarding process.
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