Dryden Group provides procurement services to educational institutions looking to maximize cost savings and reduce indirect spending expenses. Our team utilizes a customized, data-driven approach for contract negotiations and renewals, helping clients optimize expenditures.

Examples of our services include:

• Procurement consulting: Dryden Group’s procurement consulting services help educational institutions achieve cost savings through consolidation and spending efficiency, allowing them to select the most qualified vendors and obtain supplies at competitive prices.
• Spending assessments: Our spending assessments enable colleges and universities to gather data, analyze expenditures and consolidate information to enhance purchasing visibility.
• Contract negotiations: Contract negotiations allow universities to obtain the most favorable pricing, arrange optimal payment terms, streamline payment disputes and more.
• Benchmarking: Our benchmarking services utilize extensive data from other higher education institutions to help identify the top vendors for your unique procurement needs.
• Procurement audits: Our comprehensive procurement audits analyze everything from supplier selection and inventory management to vendor performance and accounts payable.
• Program optimization: Dryden Group's program optimization services rationalize each purchase to increase process efficiency and maximize cost savings.
• RFP services:Request for proposal (RFP) services enable you to collect data from multiple vendors and choose one that best meets your organizational goals over an extended period.
• Supplier relationship management: Dryden Group's supplier relationship management services allow you to compile and organize vendor data to reduce delivery delays, minimize price increases, eliminate lost revenue and more.
• Mergers and acquisitions: For colleges and universities with satellite locations or partner facilities, our merger and acquisition services help maximize the purchasing power of all parties in your organization.