Your outsourced procurement team
Method6 gives growing UK businesses a senior-led procurement team to source, negotiate and manage suppliers across IT, professional services, marketing and facilities, without having to build the function in-house.
Procurement is already happening. It just doesn't have an owner
In most growing businesses, procurement isn't missing — it's scattered across people who have other jobs to do. Nobody owns it properly, so it gets handled reactively, and the commercial value of doing it well is left on the table.
None of that is anyone's actual job. It's just absorbed — until it isn't.
Finance is chasing renewal dates and signing off contracts nobody negotiated.
IT is renegotiating software and service contracts between everything else on its plate.
Operations is managing suppliers it never chose and inherited on day one.
Marketing is signing agency and media deals with no commercial oversight.
We manage the full procurement lifecycle
From initial requirement through to renewal, Method6 manages the procurement activity that would otherwise sit across Finance, IT and Operations.
Source
Identify and shortlist suppliers.
Evaluate
Run RFPs and structured comparisons.
Negotiate
Commercial terms and pricing.
Contract
Review and negotiate commercial terms.
Onboard
Due diligence and supplier setup.
Renew
Track dates, re-negotiate, report.
Four ways to engage Method6
Each is a distinct way of engaging Method6, scoped to how much procurement capability your business needs right now. Managed Procurement is the core engagement; the others stand on their own.
Managed Procurement
A dedicated UK Procurement Manager, backed by senior oversight and specialist delivery capacity, running procurement as an embedded function inside your business.
- Sourcing, RFPs and negotiation
- Commercial contract review
- Supplier onboarding & due diligence
- Procurement inbox & contract admin
- Renewal tracking & reporting
Fractional Procurement
Extra procurement capacity, where you need it.
Flexible hands-on support for businesses that have procurement activity to manage but don't yet need a fully outsourced function.
- Supplier sourcing & market research
- RFQs and tender support
- Commercial negotiations
- Contract and renewal support
Managed Category
Dedicated ownership of a category of spend.
We take ongoing responsibility for a defined category, managing its suppliers, contracts, commercial performance and pipeline.
- Category strategy & spend review
- Supplier performance management
- Contract & renewal planning
- Market testing & cost optimisation
Sourcing Projects
Complex procurement, run from brief to award.
Defined sourcing and commercial projects delivered end-to-end when you need additional expertise or capacity.
- RFPs, RFQs & competitive tenders
- Supplier evaluation & recommendation
- Commercial negotiation
- Supplier transition & implementation support
Method6 manages procurement — sourcing, negotiation, contracts and suppliers. We don't process purchase orders, invoices or payments, and we don't provide legal advice.
Indirect spend, across the business
Method6 covers the categories that sit outside core production or service delivery — the spend that's hardest to resource internally.
Technology & IT
Software & SaaS, cloud, hardware, telecoms, managed services, cybersecurity and technology professional services.
Professional Services
Consultancy, legal, HR and advisory spend.
Marketing
Agencies, media and marketing technology.
Facilities & Workplace
Office, workplace and facilities-related suppliers.
Corporate Services
Insurance, travel, fleet and general corporate spend.
General Indirect Procurement
Anything indirect that doesn't sit neatly elsewhere.
A small, senior-led team, with genuine expertise at every level
Every Method6 engagement is built on three layers, so you get genuine procurement expertise at the point of contact, with oversight above it.
Procurement Director
Senior oversight, governance and escalation — setting direction, reviewing commercial positions, and stepping in on anything strategically significant.
Procurement Manager
Your main point of contact, and genuinely hands-on: running sourcing and RFPs, leading negotiations, reviewing commercial contract terms, and managing supplier relationships day to day.
Procurement Specialists
Experienced procurement professionals providing execution and analytical support — supplier research, tender administration, data and reporting.
Commercial, not just administrative
Method6 is built to behave like an embedded procurement function — not a fractional service, and not a processing team.
A function, not a hire
All the capability of an in-house procurement team, without the hiring timeline.
Senior-led delivery
Oversight and escalation built into every engagement, not bolted on.
Genuinely commercial
Contract review and negotiation sit at the centre of what we do — not an afterthought.
Broad category coverage
IT, professional services, marketing, facilities and corporate spend, under one team.
Built around your business
We work with the stakeholders and processes you already have, not around them.
Capacity that flexes
Add real procurement capability as spend and complexity grow — without another permanent hire.