Commercial Services

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Your Passport To Greater Value For Money. Struggling to make your budgets go far enough? Need quality and value all from one place? Commercial Services have helped organisations achieve tangible savings that make budgets go further...

Goods or Service	Supplying Business Unit
Advice line	Staff Care Services
Audiovisual equipment maintenance	Technical Services
Bulk copying services	County Print & Design
Bus & coach private hire (8-70 seater)	Passenger Services
Bus route planning & management	Transport Integration
Car parks	Facilities Management
Catering	Facilities Management
Catering equipment supplies	Kent County Supplies (KCS)
Coaching	Staff Care Services
Computer hardware maintenance	Technical Services
Counselling	Staff Care Services
CRB checking	Transport Integration
Defensive driving technique instruction	Transport Training
Design (graphic)	County Print & Design
Driver and escort training	Transport Training
Educational supplies	Kent County Supplies (KCS)
Emergency evacuation from vehicles	Transport Training
Employment agency (temps)	Kent Top Temps Ltd
Employment agency (permanent)	KTT Appointments
Energy contract management	LASER - Energy Buying Group
Energy management services	LASER - Energy Buying Group
Energy procurement	LASER - Energy Buying Group
Exhibition stands / signage	County Print & Design
Fencing	Landscape Services
FF&E packages for building projects	Kent County Supplies (KCS)
Fire extinguisher maintenance	Technical Services
Fire extinguisher training	Technical Services
Fire risk assessment	Technical Services
First aid equipment supplies	Kent County Supplies (KCS)
Front of house	Facilities Management
Furniture supplies	Kent County Supplies (KCS)
Grounds landscaping and planting	Landscape Services
Grounds maintenance	Landscape Services
Gymnastic equipment maintenance	Technical Services
Mailing services	County Print & Design
MOT testing	Transport Engineering
Occupational health	Staff Care Services
Offices supplies	Kent County Supplies (KCS)
Painting & decorating	InsideOut
Payroll printing	County Print & Design
Pest control	Landscape Services
Portable electrical appliance testing	Technical Services
Premises products	Kent County Supplies
Print & print management	County Print & Design
Private hire (car & minibus)	Kent Top Travel
Procurement advice and management	Purchasing Services Group
Recycling	Facilities Management
Security printing	County Print & Design
Site Management	Facilities Management
Small building works	InsideOut
Special needs transport management	Transport Integration
Sports facility & playground maintenance	Landscape Services
Supporting independent living	Community Equipment Service
Taxi service (pre-booked)	Kent Top Travel
Test instruction (DSA driving test)	Transport Training
Transport	Transport Integration
Transport partnership management	Transport Integration
Transport planning / management	Transport Integration
Vehicle bodywork repairs & spraying	Transport Engineering
Vehicle conversions (minibuses)	Transport Engineering
Vehicle hire (without driver)	Kent Fleet
Vehicle leasing & purchase	Kent Fleet
Vehicle servicing & maintenance	Transport Engineering
Video to DVD copying	Technical Services
Workplace mediation	Staff Care Services

Commercial Services Profile

14 business units
1,200 staff
Head office in Kings Hill
Transport depot in Aylesford
Sites across Kent, East Sussex and West Sussex

Examples of Savings

18% savings achieved on a "basket" of typical office supplies from Kent County Supplies

9% savings achieved on total travel spend by using Passenger Services

20% savings achieved on total temporary staff costs in the areas of business & office administration, drivers and industrial workers, care workers and supply teachers by using Kent Top Temps

10% savings achieved on fixed contract spend on gas and electricity using LASER

15% savings achieved on mobile phone contract management by using Purchasing Services Group