Eastern Procurement Consortium

Saffron is a founder member of Eastern Procurement Consortium.

EPC is a consortium of 10 social landlords with tenanted properties throughout East Anglia.

EPC focuses upon joining together the needs and skills of its social landlord members and efficiently procuring works and services on their behalf. All have a clear aim of achieving cost savings, promoting best practice across all projects and are committed to reinvesting cost savings back into social housing for the benefit of residents.

EPC Members enjoy many benefits from working together, including;

Competitive pricing and managed supply chains, ensuring quality, performance, predictability and value
Innovative approaches to integrated programme development and simplified pricing mechanisms
EU compliant and transparent procurement
Robust annual planning and works delivery
Tenant involvement and satisfaction
Multi-client initiatives and worksharing to reduce individual workloads
Flexibility and standardisation, creating value, choice and satisfaction
Investment in training and development for apprentices and trainees
Robust benchmarking and top quartile costs and performance

Key Contracts

All key contracts are open to both existing and new members, commitments are generally made annually for complete programmes - but short term and small scale project can be managed.

An ever growing range of services are available for immediate delivery including;