Securing The Competitive Edge.
Are you an exporter looking for leads for your exporters?
Do you want to help your in-country teams build more partnerships within their territories?
Why not tap into our database filled with millions of global leads and opportunities.
We are your key to a $13 trillion government procurement market.
🌍Bulk Data: We have millions of points of Tender data, Contracts ...
How Government Procurement Data Can Help Export Agencies
Government procurement data, the information on what goods and services government entities purchase in different markets, is an extremely valuable, and often underused tool for the export industry. Government data can help identify and open new markets, and help businesses compete more effectively, in international government procurement markets.
Identifying New Markets
By understanding what goods and services are ...
Using Data To Build A Supply Chain
All data has a provenance.
It comes from somewhere. Someone created it.
Maybe it came from a sensor, or it was created by a person using Excel.
At some point it was entered into a database and then it was saved and distributed.
In a lot of cases you won’t really know where your data came from.
Your publisher is probably ...
Would You Risk Bad Data?
If you're lucky, poor data will only make you look inefficient, but if you're unlucky, it will make a real mess of your business.
Building services on data means that you need to trust and understand the data you receive. To be sure that it is the best it can be, to know the weak points, and ...
Analysis Is A Service.
Understanding a market or a phenomenon has to account for when something happened.
If you build an analysis that says 20% of records were published with missing data, the inevitable next question is “how do we put that into context”?
In other words, is 20% bad or good?
That will mean conducting the same analysis at a different time. ...
Solving Search
Search is difficult.
By that we mean building a service that delivers the right information to people who are searching for it.
In our world of searching for business opportunities, there’s a range of tools and techniques that can be used to make search more rewarding for users.
Let’s first understand the problems. It is common for users to ...
Do You Have Data Integrity?
Not all data is the same. It might have come from the same source, but how it gets treated is vital. If a data company doesn't have good data hygiene practices things can get messy very quickly, making it hard to understand the data or undermining your valuable analysis.
These are our rules for ensuring data integrity:
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Our story. Reinventing a business.
Spend Network exists because I almost lost everything.
Where we came from:
I'd built a consultancy with twenty staff and clients across the financial and government sectors.
It was a good little firm.
We knew our stuff and it was good to see Government and Banks collaborating.
The crash
Then the financial crisis hit.
Our clients withdrew from contracts and projects in ...
Visualise your data
Harness the power of procurement data to make informed decisions. Using our advanced analytics, we can create custom visualisations and dashboards for your team.
Whether you're building new insights for your own campaign or wanting to understand the nuts and bolts of your own procurement data, we can help you bring your data to life; from identifying ...
Clean and enrich your data
Cleanse all of the supplier records within your organisation, creating a single, consolidated record with rich information to help you make better buying decisions.
Match your suppliers to a single, company record;
show other buyers who trade with your suppliers and;
enrich your data with addresses, identifiers, company structures and more.
Classify your data
We have built a state-of-the-art algorithm just to categorise procurement data. Work with us to categorise millions of records with stunning accuracy automatically.
Classify any document type, including spending and contract data;
Classify multiple languages in a single process;
Real time classification for new data from multiple sources and;
use common standards like CPV or build ...
Analysis for the $13trn global market
If you need authoritative, evidence-based insight to apply to a broader strategic challenge, we're here to help.
Unlike other consultants, we start with the largest database of procurement data in the world and combine that with deep analytical insights and expert knowledge of public contracting, not just in the UK but globally.
Analyse competitive dynamics or contracting ...
Implementing procurement analytics? Start with service design.
-Ian Makgill, Founder, Spend Network
If you're unsure what service design is, a good place to start is here . It's a fascinating area of business that is concerned with making sure that services meet the needs of users. A good example of service design at work is Amazon. Amazon has a website, but this is only ...