PROCUREMENT ADVISORY FOR PUBLIC SECTOR
Procurement teams face increasing demand, complexity and scrutiny. We help you deliver procurements and contracts that work in the real world – not just on paper.
Flexible access to experienced specialists who deliver highstakes procurements, programs or discrete tasks when internal teams are stretched.
Practical improvements that fix the root causes of slow inconsistent procurement – lifting capability, systems, planning and governance.
Frameworks, tools and interventions that restore supplier performance, strengthen accountability and embed consistent practices.
Practical public sector procurement, delivered by experts without the ego.
We’re the unconsultancy consultants — no boardroom fluff, no generic playbooks, no inflated teams. Just high‑calibre experts at the coalface, working alongside you with straight advice and zero ego.
We give you straight advice, practical solutions and senior specialists who work alongside your team — not above it. No jargon. No overengineering. Just outcomes that hold up under pressure.
Our recommendations are research‑led and tailored to each client — better practice grounded in data, not opinion.
Commonwealth Government
CPR compliance, highstakes tenders, large complex procurement programs, multiagency arrangements
State Government
Service delivery focused procurements, ICT and construction procurements, maturity uplift, better practice.
Infrastructure & Utilities
Construction and ICT procurement, risk, performance management.
Health & Human Services
Complex service delivery, contract management, performance management.
Education & Research
Governance uplift, maturity uplift, category management, spend insights, facilities and ICT.
Procurement Advisory Lead
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Nicholas leads the GPG ICT Procurement practice. With over 30 years experience in the ICT industry and 20 years working on procurement consulting, he has delivered some of the largest and most complex technology procurement deals in Victoria.
1. Deutsches Staatsexamen der Rechtswissenschaften (equivalent to Bachelor of Law), 2. Deutsches Staatsexamen der Rechtswissenschaften (equivalent to Juris Doctor), Zulassung zur Rechtsanwaltschaft (Admission to the German Bar), Probity Advisor (Arbitration and Mediation Association certificate), CIPS affiliate member
Silke is a driven procurement leader with twenty years of experience in corporate and public sector environments. Her roles span Procurement, Contract Management, Strategy and Policy development, and Program Management.
BEng (Mech Eng - Production), PGrad Dip Bus Mgmt, Lean Six Sigma BB
Ricardo has over fifteen years of comprehensive experience in program and project management, procurement, and strategic supplier relationship management (SRM) and he holds a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
Consolidating brokerage services under a single broker can deliver significant benefits: improved commercial terms, streamlined administration, and cost savings. Achieving this requires a structured procurement approach to ensure transparency, compliance, and alignment with organisational objectives.
An emergency services agency engaged Grosvenor to map and re-engineer its customer information processes with the goal of making them more streamlined and efficient.
This Commonwealth department identified a need to review its procurement processes to improve efficiency, compliance, and staff capabilities. The department engaged Grosvenor Procurement Advisory (Grosvenor) to conduct this review and ensure that it has effective and efficient procurement practices that deliver value for money, follow robust governance and probity, is compliant with the Commonwealth Procurement Rules, uplift commercial processes and procedures, optimise the procurement pipeline and follow higher-order policies.
A NSW State Government client is on a journey to implement a new Enterprise Resource System (ERP). While the new system will enhance the availability and validity of data, our client understands that just reporting on nice-to-know statistics, such as the number of purchase orders raised and the number of suppliers used, doesn’t help much. Grosvenor was able to design three streamlined reports that enable our client to track procurement outcomes across the organisation.
Grosvenor's 2025 Annual Procurement study, Procurement as the Guiding Light - For navigating market challenges, innovation, and value for money. We provide you with a free interactive procurement maturity checklist to see where your procurement function stands and where you can focus next.
Procurement as the Guiding Light offers a practical maturity assessment framework, allowing you to benchmark your function against peers and identify areas for improvement. Whether you’re looking to build a business case for investment, improve strategic alignment, or simply understand where your strengths and gaps lie, this is your essential guide.
Understanding these differences is the first step towards improvement. Whether you’re in the public or private sector, Procurement as the Guiding Light offers practical insights and a maturity assessment framework to help you benchmark your function, identify gaps, and chart a course for better results.
Procurement advisory is a structured decision‑support management consulting discipline that helps organisations improve procurement outcomes across sourcing, contracting, supplier management, and procurement transformation.
Unlike operational procurement outsourcing, procurement advisory is flexible and focuses on improving how procurement decisions are made, including governance alignment, risk management, and value‑for‑money optimisation.
In Australian government and enterprise contexts, procurement advisory is often applied within frameworks such as the Commonwealth Procurement Rules (CPRs) to ensure decisions are transparent, defensible, and aligned with policy requirements. Organisations such as Grosvenor apply procurement advisory to strengthen procurement decision systems, improve operating models, and build internal procurement capability.
Compliance frameworks such as the Commonwealth Procurement Rules (CPRs), the NSW Government Procurement Framework or the VGPB Policy Framework establish the framework for government procurement in Australia, requiring procurement activities to achieve value for money, maintain transparency, and ensure accountability.
Within this environment, procurement advisory supports structured, probity-rich decision‑making across sourcing, supplier selection, and contract management. Advisory services help organisations translate compliance requirements into practical procurement processes so governance expectations are embedded into procurement design and execution.
Procurement advisory addresses challenges such as inconsistent procurement processes, poor supplier performance, fragmented procurement systems, pressing timeframes, limited internal capability, and high‑risk sourcing decisions.
It helps organisations move from transactional procurement to structured, governed, and value‑driven procurement systems supported by clear decision frameworks.
Procurement advisory focuses on improving procurement decisions, frameworks, and systems, while procurement outsourcing involves executing low value/high volume procurement transactions or procurement operations. Advisory is typically used to provide independent expert input, in high stakes projects, for end to end support and delivery, to support procurement strategy development, align governance and risk, and assist with procurement transformation.
Australian Government procurement policy encourages engagement with small and medium enterprises as part of broader objectives to support supplier diversity and strengthen capability within procurement ecosystems.
In this environment, SMEs such as Grosvenor, often provide specialist expertise, agility, and targeted advisory capability within procurement and advisory engagements.
Procurement advisory improves organisational performance by strengthening procurement decision-making, improving supplier outcomes, enhancing governance alignment, and embedding structured procurement processes.
This results in improved value for money, reduced procurement risk, stronger supplier performance, and more consistent procurement outcomes.
Procurement advisory services may include procurement maturity assessments, procurement strategy design, end to end procurement support, tender evaluation, sourcing, category management, contract and supplier performance review, procurement system optimisation, governance framework development, and procurement capability uplift programs.
A procurement operating model defines how procurement decisions, roles, systems, and governance structures interact across an organisation.
Procurement advisory is used to design and improve operating models so procurement is streamlined, compliant, consistent, scalable, and aligned to organisational strategy. This can include procurement governance structures, sourcing and category management models, supplier management frameworks, procurement capability and skills development, and systems and data integration.
Organisations such as Grosvenor support operating model design to improve decision consistency and long‑term capability maturity.
Procurement benefit realisation refers to an organisation’s ability to achieve intended benefits from procurement decisions, including cost efficiency, service improvement, risk reduction, and supplier performance outcomes.
Procurement advisory supports benefits and value realisation by improving how organisations define, measure, and manage procurement outcomes across the supplier lifecycle.
This includes contract performance measurement, supplier relationship management, benefits tracking and realisation frameworks, and procurement KPI design aligned to outcomes.
Whether you are looking to get more out of your projects, are interested in collaboration or would like to talk about joining the Grosvenor team, please get in touch.
