LONDON, UK - Fast-growing restaurant chain Nando’s has called on Waterscan to help it prepare to tender for a new countrywide water supplier in early 2018.
The water consultancy has been briefed to advise the company on the English water market, provide a data set for the tender process and conduct margin analysis to assist in the bid evaluation.
From April this year, businesses in England could choose how to buy water and wastewater services.
The change was predicted to affect 1.2 million businesses with the government claiming it would deliver £200 million of benefits to the economy and water customers over the next 30 years.
Cameron Holder, head of indirect procurement at Nando’s, said: “Having firmly embedded waste reduction principles and procurement processes in our business, we now turn our attention to water.”
Waterscan’s account director, James Goodall, said: “Our first task is to thoroughly review Nando’s billing data to better understand current usage so that we can help them drive down consumption and costs. The resulting data analysis will assist the Nando’s procurement team to make a well-informed decision about its choice of water supplier and ultimately achieve their best possible tender outcome.”
Waterscan has been working with other companies including Sainsburys, Tesco, the Co-operative, Argos, Whitbread and KFC.
Established thirty years ago in South Africa, Nando’s brought its legendary Peri-Peri chicken and its distinctive looking restaurants to the UK in 1992. It now has 397 outlets across England.
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