Situation.
Airport operator with approximately EUR 460m third-party spend across operations, maintenance and construction.
Strategic sourcing.
Airport operator
Challenge.
Public procurement rules constrained supplier consolidation and direct negotiation, ruling out the standard consolidation approach.
What we did.
Designed category strategies within procurement rules, using tender design, specifications and demand management as the main levers.
The outcome.
Approximately EUR 32m savings, or 7% of addressed spend, delivered with full procurement compliance.
Anonymised engagement. Figures are approximate. Targets, assessed potential, approved programmes and realised results are described separately in the outcome. Converted amounts use ECB reference rates dated 18 September 2026, rounded to two significant figures.
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