About CBC

The Central Buying Consortium is the largest local authority purchasing consortium in the UK. It has seventeen local authority members, having grown from just six members when it was formed in 1991, and now represents most of the major authorities from the midlands to the south-east, outside London.

The members of the CBC are the purchasing departments of several local authorities, predominantly in the South East of England.

The organisation exists to maximise the value to its members of the products which they purchase. We achieve this by working with each other and with suppliers to reduce the variety of products and services consolidate the amount purchased by the member authorities.

Benefits for the authorities are in the savings which we can achieve, which reduce the costs of the authorities own services and create best value for our charge payers.

Benefits for the suppliers are in the reduction of product diversity, and in the reduced administrative overhead which flows from dealing with a single contract.

Suppliers who are interested in working with this important grouping can contact the relevant product group from the list below. For more information about the CBC itself, please contact the marketing group.