Local Supply Chain Portal

What is the Local Supply Chain Portal?

Local Supply Chain (LSC) is a cloud-based supply chain management and procurement platform, which has been designed and developed for the construction industry. LSC provides main contractors with access to over 25,000 suppliers across the UK. In the past year alone, an average of more than £1m worth of contracts has been awarded every day.

LSC software incorporates many innovative features, which not only manage the entire procurement process but also introduce collaboration across many different departments.

LSC will allow SCF and its client’s unrivalled access to commercial management information in real-time, driving intelligent decision-making early enough in the project to improve outcomes and predictability.

It also:

• Automatically captures critical data to the source, manage and engage subcontractors

• Unifies procurement processes

• Helps suppliers win more work with public sector clients

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Why suppliers should sign up:

Instant Access
Sign up for free and gain instant access to opportunities from the Southern Construction Framework’s pipeline of work.
Exposure to new sectors
Opportunities to bid for a wider range of work via SCF and exposure to new sectors.
Exposure to main contractors
Enhanced exposure to main contractors.
Develop your network
Become part of the SCF community, attending meet the buyer events and develop your network.

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How suppliers can use Local Supply Chain:

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Why are Southern Construction Frameworks working with Local Supply Chain?

SCF have invested in Local Supply Chain in order to build upon its industry-leading two-stage open book process, to reach new levels of intelligent project management for the public sector, whilst increasing contractor efficiency during pre-construction with this intuitive software tool.

SCF and LSC are working together to cultivate a versatile and resilient community of engaged suppliers offering robust competition and early specialist engagement, a source of high quality, impartial advice to public clients by allowing clients and main contractors to engage with local SMEs and the community in a fair and transparent way

As well as delivering better value through increased competition, LSC will provide a platform for SCF to target social value efforts, reward ethical conduct and give employment and skills a local focus.

This new relationship will allow SCF to improve quality standards and training through the supply chain, supporting better project delivery via direct relationships with local suppliers.

Local Supply Chain not only delivers this, but also provides all framework partners with access to a leading software package that makes the day to day supply chain management and procurement processes easier, and less time-consuming.

SCF use this information to provide clients, and potential clients with strong business cases which demonstrate why SCF are industry-leading experts, and central to their offering is the engagement and employment of local SMEs.

SCF is the industry leader in two-stage open book delivery, consistently outperforming the industry in cost and programme management, and customer satisfaction. Fairness and best practice are at the core of everything we do, and investing in Local Supply Chain is a commitment we have made to both our clients, and our framework partners, to help shape the future of public construction management.

We believe by investing in LSC we can offer, in real time, oversight and transparency across all framework projects, along with demonstrating our capabilities and commitment to engaging the right suppliers for every project. We believe this will mean even better project outcomes through the framework, delivering higher quality, more predicable projects, and more work for you, our framework partners.

Using LSC provides both SCF and our framework partners with a fair and equitable package procurement process.

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How can you find out more about the Local Supply Chain portal?

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SCF supports CLOCS

CLOCS is a national Standard that requires all stakeholders in construction to take responsibility for health & safety beyond the hoardings. It demands collaborative action to prevent fatal or serious collisions between vehicles servicing construction projects and vulnerable road users: pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists.

The CLOCS Standard requires action from clients, principal contractors and vehicle operators, and harnesses the power of policy-makers to minimise the impact of construction projects and eliminate harm to communities.

We want all Contractors and Sub Contractors take careful consideration when operating on and off site, and undertake safe practice led by the CLOCS Standard wherever possible.

The CLOCS Standard