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Cimple is a platform that help buyers and suppliers get the best out of procurement. Our solution live across the UK Government and has won multiple AI InnovateUK grants.
About
Procurement technology has not evolved significantly since the late 90s/early 00s and most of which is built for the expert user. Cimple has developed a leading user experience to support improved data capture that enabling more automation and deployment of AI in an ethical and responsible way.
Critically, our brand is focussed on delivering a solution that truly cares about our user supporting the millions of informal buyers across all organisations. Procurement is not simple for our users, and it is scary, by truly caring about their challenges we have been able to develop and intelligent procurement solution that users truly love.
Key Benefits
The key benefits of Cimple are focussed on three core stakeholder groups.
1) Buyers
- Improved workflow management and creation
- Auto-population/generation of key aspects required to deliver successful procurement
- Savings delivered through greater competition from suppliers
- Savings delivered through greater efficiencies
2) Suppliers
- Only one procurement solution to bid through, not multiple
- Storing and reuse of repeatable information
- Increased changes of winning procurements
3) Civilians
- Improving GDP growth through growth in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) c.37% of contracts won on Cimple go to an SME
- Improving the performance of front-line government services i.e. helping to improve the performance of the c.£300bn Government spends annually on goods and services
- Reducing carbon in supply chains through helping buyers to understand local markets and award to more carbon efficient companies
Applications
Our core target market for our early growth is the UK Public Sector i.e. Schools, NHS Trusts, Local Councils, Government bodies etc. There is a specific reason for this in that the UK Government over recent years has had a drive towards open data in end-to-end procurement. This enables us to consolidate significant data to drive our intelligence engines to e.g. autogeneration specifications, contracts, technical questions to ask in procurements. We can then use this core engine of data in wider markets outside of the UK and into Private Sector. We have already expanded into international Governments with a deployment in Abu Dhabi.
Our second core market is Private Sector business that are mid-Market in size. These organisations more often than not lack a procurement solution due to the cost and complexity of market leaders. Cimple offers a lightweight, off the shelf and intelligent solution for them that they are already using to win work through as a supplier.