Andy Seal

Background

About Andy Seal

Led on sustainable procurement for communications which buids in to the Department's Sustainable Development Action Plan- Provided advice and guidance on print and paper procurement, contract and supplier management and environmental production issues to the Department and OGD's- Was lead for centralising print, publishing and marketing services under the category management process for the whole DfT family- I was a member of the OGC category strategy team for print, paper and marketing, which worked to centralise, standardise and mandate procurement of these services within Central Government and which reported to the Efficiency Reform Group on generating savings and operational efficiencies- I advised Buying Solutions (Government Procurement Agency) under secondment to them on print and paper procurement and specifying and was one of the main speakers on collaborative procurement on their national road show in 2009/10 for effective procurement in the Office Solutions category- I led the design and development of the Procurement Business Partnering teams in DfT as part of early transition from internal commercial procurement activities to moving category procurement into Crown Commercial Services. Specialties: Collaborative Procurement, Project Management, Project and Programme Board member, Print Production, Recycled Paper, Contract Management, National and European Procurement Regs. People Management.