Take back control of what you pay your suppliers.
DFBL Procure runs the supplier renegotiation cycle for you — RFP, multiple bid rounds, final negotiation — then checks every month, on the actual invoice, that the new price is the one you agreed. No ERP plug-in, no contract folder to rebuild. Start from one supplier or one spend category.
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- Start from one supplier — no historic import
- Baseline from your invoices
- Monthly proof on the invoice
30+ years
renegotiating supplier contracts
No ERP
no spend cube to build
Start tomorrow
from one supplier
EU-hosted
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UK · IE · FR · ES
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Why supplier prices keep drifting up
Most owner-led businesses have lost the line on what they pay.
When you grow from £15M to £60M, you sign suppliers along the way. Few formal contracts, mostly purchase orders and emails. Three years later, nobody owns the question 'are we still paying the right price?'
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typical drift in supplier prices over 24 months in mid-market industry, vs market (DFBL field benchmark, 30 years of mid-market practice)
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share of recurring suppliers without a written contract on file in owner-led businesses (DFBL field benchmark, 30 years of mid-market practice)
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number of board packs that reconcile renegotiated prices to the actual invoice paid the next month (DFBL field benchmark, 30 years of mid-market practice)
Source: DFBL field benchmark, 30 years of mid-market cost reduction practice. Methodology available on request.
How DFBL Procure works for you
One supplier or one category at a time. Proof on the invoice.
Each spend category becomes a Project. Inside, you run renegotiations, benchmarks, or ongoing supplier improvement plans with key suppliers. Every one ends with a monthly Savings Check that compares what you should pay to what you actually paid.
Pick a supplier. Start tomorrow.
No ERP integration, no spend cube to build. Drop 12 months of invoices for the supplier, answer a 6-question RFI, and DFBL builds the baseline. No historic data import.
Multiple bid rounds, on paper.
The incumbent and 2-3 challengers respond on the same grid. First round, then a Best-And-Final-Offer round. Quality and price ranked side by side. You pick.
Walk into the meeting with the file.
Before the face-to-face, DFBL prepares a one-page brief per supplier. What you can still ask for, the arguments based on the bids you received, a short slide deck. You run the meeting, you sign.
Every month, on the invoice — not in a slide.
After the deal is signed, DFBL checks each monthly invoice against the renegotiated price. Verified, gap, or pending. The figure that reaches your gross margin is the figure you actually realised.
What the four weeks look like
From the first call to the first signed renegotiation.
- Week 11
Baseline
You pick the supplier or the category. Drop 12 months of invoices. Answer a short RFI (6 questions). DFBL builds the baseline — price, volume, SLAs, renewal date, risks — with each line referenced to the source document.
- Week 22
RFP
DFBL writes the RFP (lots, pricing grid, quality questionnaire). You confirm the supplier list (incumbent plus 2-3 challengers). Invitations sent. Deadlines tracked.
- Week 33
Analysis and shortlist
Bids parsed and normalised onto your grid. Scored on price and quality. You see the comparator on one screen. Shortlist confirmed with you.
- Week 44
BAFO and signature
Best-and-final-offer round with specific asks per supplier. Final negotiation brief and slides for the face-to-face. You run the meeting. Award. Monthly Savings Checks scheduled on the next invoices.
Engagement
Three ways to start, sized to your reality.
Every owner-led business is different. We size the engagement against your perimeter, not against a SaaS user count. Discussed during the call.
Pilot Initiative
One supplier or one category. End-to-end: baseline, RFP, BAFO, negotiation brief, first 3 monthly SavingChecks. Designed to prove the model before you commit further.
Multi-Category Programme
Several Projects in parallel: packaging, logistics, energy, IT, services. Quarterly review with the CEO. Monthly SavingChecks across the perimeter.
Annual Programme
Continuous renegotiation cadence on your full addressable spend. Annual savings target tracked live. SavingCheck dashboard for the CEO and the CFO.
Tailored to your perimeter. Discussed during the call. No subscription you do not need.
FAQ
What owner-CEOs ask us before signing
We do not have proper contracts with most of our suppliers. Can you still work?+
Yes. The baseline is built from your invoices and a short questionnaire. Contracts help when they exist. They are not required to start.
Do we need to plug DFBL into our ERP or accounting software?+
No. You drop the invoices (PDF, scan or Excel). DFBL reads them. We do not connect to your accounting software in V1 — and we will tell you when that becomes useful.
How is this different from a procurement consultant?+
A consultant runs the renegotiation once and leaves a slide deck. DFBL runs the same process in a structured tool, then keeps checking the invoice every month for the life of the contract. The slide deck does not pay your gross margin — the invoice does.
Are you going to upset our long-standing suppliers?+
The renegotiation is run as a written, fair, multi-round process. Most incumbents stay — they sharpen their price. Suppliers respect a buyer who runs a clean RFP more than one who calls every two years asking for a bit off.
Take back control of what you pay.
Thirty minutes on a call. Pick one supplier or one category. We show you what your baseline would look like, what a renegotiation would run like, and what the monthly invoice check would tell you. No slides.
Direct call with David. 30 years of mid-market procurement practice, no SDR, no funnel.