About Quantum-360: A Team of Expert Procurement Consultants

I just wanted to say a personal thank you for your unwavering support over the past 9 months. You and your Q360 team have truly been instrumental in delivering every aspect of what we needed to achieve – which in some cases was more than somewhat unformed. You have taken us with calm and cheerful professionalism through huge ‘gates’ such as TAP and have demonstrated time and again why Q360 was absolutely the right partner to deliver this with us. Not only that, but you have given us a wide range of value add – from grant upskilling to commercial strategy to tactics for working with DCMS Commercial and thinking about systems for the future. Finally, thank you for your flexibility in reworking schedules and priorities. Again, we could not have achieved this phenomenal outcome without you, your team and, importantly, your personal approach and expertise. Hoping we stay in touch and wishing you ongoing success. Thank you for your help.

I have had the pleasure of working with Mr Bates and Quantum 360 on two significant occasions – the first was when Mr Bates was one of the industry Commercial experts employed on the Vaccine Task Force where I was leading on a number of Covid vaccine projects; and the second when I was part of the executive team of the West of England Combined Authority (WECA), leading the Strategic Infrastructure Directorate. When I joined WECA, we had the challenge of procuring and managing £1.2bn of infrastructure and transports assets, without having any commercial, procurement and supply chain management capability or governance. But we had an extremely tight infrastructure programme which required us to mobilise and engage the supply chain as rapidly as possible. Mr Bates was the first person I turned to for advice and recommended to WECA to bring Mr Bates and his team into the business. WECA needed senior Commercial expertise but importantly, expertise who were well versed in major public procurements, with a thorough understanding of Government Green Book practices and requisite governance. I was delighted with the speed at which Mr Bates mobilised an excellent commercial team from scratch and at the professionalism of the team. Mr Bates was very well respected by the WECA executive team, in particular the CEO and Finance Director who were highly appreciative of the commercial governance established by him considering the substantial sums of public money that WECA was responsible for.

Kevin developed and led a great team of professionals, who ensured the growing needs of the organisation were met through a positive ad solutions focussed approach. During this time there were many competing priorities, demands and the organisation was going through significant change – which created additional challenges for the commercial team. However they rose to those challenges under Kevins excellent leadership to ensure the regional requirements were met time and again. The scale of the projects and requirements on this team were significant, so this was a great achievement. I highly recommend Kevin Bates as a great asset.

Quantum 360 were exceptional in their support for our ESG (environmental, social and governance) project. Our key requirement was to ensure we had all relevant legislation and other requirements covered, at least to a minimum standard. The consultant worked collaboratively to understand our particular context and walked us through the process to help us define the outputs that we needed. We were very reassured by the high level of technical and legislative knowledge of the consultant, as well as the practical application she proposed. Reporting was helpful, succinct and regular and meant we were able to make any small refinements along the way. The work delivered exactly what we needed, with the requirement outcomes, on time and under budget.