Wednesday 13th August, 2014

Middlesbrough Football Club plans to save £30,000 by outsourcing their food and beverage procurement at Riverside Stadium and Rockcliffe Park training ground.

The contract includes overseeing supplier tendering, product sourcing, pricing negotiations to centralising supplier invoicing and payments.

A number of specific categories are being reviewed as part of the contract, including fruit and vegetables, food wholesale, fresh seafood, confectionery and beverages.

Mark Ellis, Chief Operating Officer for Middlesbrough Football Club said: "As a club, we host on average 25 football games per year, which brings crowds of around 16,000 on the concourses, in addition to serving around 700 meals in the hospitality areas, however I felt it was time to bring in a procurement specialist to help not only reduce our food costs, but decrease the time our chefs spend on purchasing and administration."

As part of the partnership, Middlesbrough Football Club is adopting Pelican’s online portal, which is a cloud-based procurement solution that is designed to provide complete visibility, management and control over purchasing spend, budgets, stock valuation and supplier invoices.