Central Buying Consortium (CBC)
CBC is a member of the Pro5 Group of Professional Buying Organisations. The Pro5 Group have a combined purchasing power in excess of £2 billion and are set to offer local authorities outstanding deals in key markets following a historic agreement to work together.
Under these arrangements, the Pro5 Group will identify and promote the best deals for local authorities, including those offered by other professional buying organisations.
The Central Buying Consortium is a joint working protocol - a partnership of local authorities. The consortium has no separate existence and no funds of its own. It is an association of independent purchasing and supplies organisations and is run by the public sector for the public sector. It makes no profits and seeks to reduce the burden of expenditure on the public purse for the benefit of council tax payers.
By harnessing the resources of local purchasing organisations, the CBC remains responsive to local needs and agendas. Each member seeks to advance the interests of his/her own authority through the management and working group processes of the consortium, and each authority makes a contribution to and derives benefit from the major contracts that the CBC undertakes.
The CBC currently comprises 17 full member authorities:
- The City Councils of Coventry, Portsmouth and Southampton
- The Borough Councils of Luton and Northampton
- Milton Keynes Council
- The County Councils of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk and West Sussex
For further information, please visit www.cbconline.org.uk
