David Jordan

Current

• Procurement & Contract Manager at Criminal Justice IT (Home Office)

Past

• Senior Procurement Advisor at Department for Communities & Local Government (DCLG)
• IT Outsourcing Project Commercial Workstream Manager at Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)
• Faster Procurement Project Manager at Office of Government Commerce (OGC)

• Consultant - OGC Consultancy Service at Office of Government Conmmerce (OGC)
• Project Manager at OGC
• Commercial Analyst at Office of Government Commerce (OGC)

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Education

• Civil Service College
• University of East Anglia
• University of East Anglia

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Information Technology and Services

David Jordan’s Summary

• An MCIPS qualified senior procurement professional with extensive public sector experience in a range of roles including procurement management, consultancy, contract management, research and best practice. Highly focused on delivery and achievement of efficiency savings.
• Experienced in the full range of public sector procurement from call-off frameworks to BPO, including project management principles, risk management, major IT projects, contract management the Gateway process and UK and European procurement law.
• Managed procurement and commercial work stream of £35m IT outsourcing project including procurement strategy development, influencing key stakeholders, process planning, developing and negotiating commercial terms leading to an award of contract to ambitious planned timescales.
• Author of OGC report on faster procurement timescales in complex projects. Included extensive research on recent major procurement projects and recommendations to improve advert to award timescales to deliver successful projects.
• Strong experience of commercial contract management of a £40m major public sector IT contract, including negotiation and administration of extensive contract change to respond to changing business requirements and delivery of best value & efficiency savings.

David Jordan’s Specialties:

Contract Negotiation, Procurement Strategy Management, Outsourcing, OGC Decision Map Commercial Model for IT, Efficiency Savings

David Jordan’s Experience

• Procurement & Contract Manager

  Criminal Justice IT (Home Office)

  (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Government Administration industry)

  October 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)

  • Provision of commercial contract management of a complex and dynamic shared service IT contract worth around £40m at the heart of the criminal justice system.
  
  • Management and administration of extensive contract change including requirements, drafting contract change notes, negotiation, agreement and integration into contract schedules.
  
  • Delivery of efficiency savings through challenge and negotiation on pricing, identification of synergies, regular review and scrutiny.
  
  • Supplier relationship improvement based on a balanced scorecard approach aligned with the OGC Framework.
  
  • Management of software procurement and asset management to drive efficiencies including aggregation, alignment of renewals and adoption of an enterprise approach.
  
  • Analysis and improvement of the purchase to pay process.

• Senior Procurement Advisor

  Department for Communities & Local Government (DCLG)

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)

  December 2005 — August 2006 (9 months)

  • Providing leadership and staff management to a small team of procurement professionals delivering procurement of goods and services to the Department
  
  • Providing strategic advice and guidance to major projects within DCLG on procurement best practice, legislative requirements, procedures and procedures
  
  • Contribution to delivery of the Department’s procurement efficiency commitments under the Gershon efficiency agenda though operational management of procurement
  
  • Manage the transition to a centralised procurement service in ODPM. Put in place operating procedures and practices to enable effective response to departmental requests for procurement.

• IT Outsourcing Project Commercial Workstream Manager

  Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG)

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)

  October 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 3 months)

  • Development of the procurement strategy including development and assessment of a novel procurement approach in close liaison with the legal team
  • Undertaking analysis of procurement options and departmental capability using the OGC Decision Map process
  • Advise on and contribute to the development of the outline and full business cases working with KPMG and other advisors
  • Planning and management of the commercial team comprising a range of internal and external resources
  • Development and negotiation of commercial principles drawing on advice and guidance from Partnerships UK and OGC
  • Drafting of procurement documentation including OJEU, PQQ, Evaluation Strategy, Negotiation Strategy, ITN and BAFO documentation.
  • Carrying out negotiations with shortlisted suppliers and development of contractual documentation liaising closely with legal advisors
  • Delivering a successful award of contract within ambitious planned timescales

• Faster Procurement Project Manager

  Office of Government Commerce (OGC)

  (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Government Administration industry)

  February 2004 — October 2004 (9 months)

  • Planning and management of project activities and deliverables in response to recommendations of a Cabinet Office/RIU report on reducing bureaucracy in the government marketplace
  • Research and identification of opportunities to accelerate advert to award timescales in major government procurements drawing on lessons learned and experience gained in recent projects across the UK
  • Presentation of updates and findings to government procurement audiences at a number of events hosted by OGC
  • Drafting final project report and achieving buy-in of stakeholders through to publication on the OGC toolkit

• Consultant - OGC Consultancy Service

  Office of Government Conmmerce (OGC)

  (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Government Administration industry)

  March 2002 — February 2004 (2 years)

  Provision of strategic and operational advice and guidance to a range of public sector bodies on procurement best practice issues. Development of sourcing strategies, drafting of procurement documentation, advice on commercial terms, negotiation of contract terms, development of evaluation methodology and criteria and advice on European and UK legal issues in procurement.
  Including:
  
  • OGC Buying.Solutions - Government Telecommunications Mobile Contract
  • OfWAT – Various framework procurements
  • Home Office – Outsourcing of the Securities Industry Authority IT Infrastructure and business services
  • ODPM – Replacement for Housing Grant Subsidy System

• Project Manager

  OGC

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2000 — 2004 (4 years)

• Commercial Analyst

  Office of Government Commerce (OGC)

  (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Government Administration industry)

  April 2000 — March 2002 (2 years)

  • Undertaking detailed analysis of company financial accounts to assess financial stability and trends in debt management and profitability
  • Drafting regular market sector reports for public sector procurement market
  • Gathering and analysing supplier performance data from across government to feed into vendor appraisal analysis in current procurements for public sector customers
  • Drafting regular commercial reports and briefings for high level supplier management meetings
  • Managing regular public sector supplier ‘user-groups’ to facilitate cross-departmental co-ordination in response to issues faced with particular suppliers.

David Jordan’s Education

• Civil Service College

  MCIPS , Strategic Procurement Management , 2004 — 2005

• University of East Anglia

  MSc , Environmental Impact Assessment, Auditing & Management Systems , 2001 — 2002

• University of East Anglia

  BA (Hons) , International Development Studies , 1997 — 2000

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