Fractional procurement for UK SMEs
Your procurement department, without the headcount.
Businesses with 5 to 100 staff rarely have anyone whose job is to challenge what suppliers charge. We audit your operational spend, negotiate on your behalf, and stay on as your purchasing department for a fraction of the cost of one.
Where the money leaks
You buy more than you think you do.
Most operational contracts renew on autopilot, priced for the customer who never asks. These are the categories where we consistently find savings.
Licences nobody uses, tiers nobody chose, renewals nobody negotiated.
Legacy tariffs and out-of-contract lines billing at rack rates.
Cover renewed with the incumbent because comparing felt like work.
Business energy has no price cap. Unmanaged contracts pay for that.
Carrier rates that crept up invoice by invoice, unchallenged.
The recurring small stuff that quietly compounds into real money.
How it works
Audit first. Prove it. Then stay on.
Spend audit
A fixed-fee review of your operational spend. You get a findings report with the savings identified, quantified, and ranked by effort to capture.
Negotiation
We take the findings to your suppliers and negotiate on your behalf. You approve every change. Nothing switches without your sign-off.
Your purchasing department
A monthly retainer that keeps us in the seat: renewals watched, new contracts challenged, spend reported. The discipline stays, permanently.
| Category | Annualised saving | Effort to capture |
|---|---|---|
| Software | £ XX,XXX | Low |
| Telecoms | £ X,XXX | Low |
| Insurance | £ XX,XXX | Medium |
| Utilities | £ XX,XXX | Medium |
| Freight and logistics | £ X,XXX | High |
Illustrative layout only. Figures are placeholders and describe no actual client or engagement.
The guarantee
Guarantee / Audit opinion
If the audit does not identify at least three times its fee in annualised savings, the fee is refunded.
We can offer that because we scope honestly before we start. If we do not believe the savings are there, we will tell you and walk away before you spend a pound.
guarantee
How we work
People decide. Software assists.
Human-led
We use data tools to analyse spend fast, but every recommendation and every negotiation is run by a person who is accountable for it. Nothing is decided by an algorithm.
Delivery-focused
We come from programme delivery, not sales. That means dated actions, visible progress, and short meetings. You will always know what is happening and when.
Independent
We take no commissions and no kickbacks from suppliers. We are paid by you, so the only side of the table we sit on is yours.
Who we are
Two engineers who negotiate for a living.
Lokoja Partners was founded by two senior engineering programme professionals with backgrounds across aerospace and defence delivery, where supplier management, cost control, and negotiation are the day job and the margins for error are thin. We bring that discipline to businesses that cannot justify a full-time procurement hire but pay full-time procurement prices without one.
The name comes from Lokoja, the Nigerian town where the Niger and Benue rivers meet. Two forces, one direction.
Get started
Book a spend review.
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Book a spend review.
Tell us roughly what your business spends each month on operations and we will tell you, honestly, whether an audit is worth your money.
info@lokojapartners.com