Case Study: South Staffordshire College achieves major IT procurement savings with KnowledgeBus

South Staffordshire College - Customer Case Study

South Staffordshire College, a £30 million further education institution supporting more than 20,000 students and 850 staff across four campuses, needed to equip its new Cannock campus with high-spec IT while under pressure to justify every investment and maximize a shrinking budget. To achieve best value on every purchase, it turned to KnowledgeBus and its IT benchmarking and spend analysis tools.

KnowledgeBus provided South Staffordshire College with a CIPS-accredited online application that benchmarks IT purchases against live trade guide pricing and stock levels, helping the team see supplier margins and negotiate more effectively. As a result, the college reduced supplier margins from 30.9% to below 3% in some cases, cut historical reseller costs, and saved tens of thousands of pounds—enough for the solution to pay for itself within the first month.

South Staffordshire College

Jamie E Smith

Director for Strategy & Infrastructure