Kwantify Field guides
UK indirect procurement · Current as of September 2026

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Commercial briefings on the categories indirect procurement actually negotiates — market size, provider economics, pricing models, levers, question banks and caveats — plus practitioner training modules on negotiation, requirements, stakeholders and indexation. Free to read in full, no sign-in.

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Practitioner modules

Skills training on niche topics, separate from the market guides. Modular by design — dip in and out of the parts most useful to you.
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About us

What we stand for

For too long, critical information about supplier pricing, profit drivers, negotiation levers and industry practices has remained hidden behind closed doors or expensive subscription based services. We're changing that. Kwantify is an independent, free tool for Procurement professionals.

All content is created using AI but with oversight from an experienced and senior Procurement practitioner.

It empowers Procurement to
01Negotiate better deals
02Talk with authority and credibility in front of stakeholders and suppliers
03Accelerate their workflow
04Deliver on their target

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Supplier risk monitoring is a separate Kwantify tool that tracks financial health, news and other risk signals across the suppliers you work with. It runs as its own site.

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Why now?

Traditional Procurement market intelligence and training is often theoretical, ineffective, and detached from real-world scenarios. Competency amongst practitioners vary widely, and practical, reliable intelligence is hard to find.

Kwantify is an AI first initiative which aims to disrupt the Procurement and TPRM industry. Whilst we intend to initially focus on indirect market intelligence and risk monitoring, our intention is to build out a comprehensive library of training content and AI generated tooling — all with the common aim of empowering Procurement to deliver more.

Kwantify is in essence an experiment: with a carefully considered AI led workflow and human quality assurance, is it possible to create a free product which may either remove or complement the expensive market intelligence services often used by Procurement teams?

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Kwantify · kwantify.ai@gmail.com · Free market intelligence for UK indirect procurement

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Price index tracker

Inflation, and
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Every uplift conversation runs on an index. This page tracks the UK measures a buyer is most often handed — CPI, CPIH, RPI, core CPI and the producer and earnings measures — so you can see where each one sits, how far apart they are, and what that gap is worth on a contract line.

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Why RPI runs hotter

RPI uses an arithmetic (Carli) average where CPI uses a geometric one, which adds a persistent upward bias; it also includes mortgage interest and house depreciation, and covers a different population. The ONS states that RPI does not meet the standard for accredited official statistics, and continues to publish it only because it is still written into contracts.

The practical consequence for a buyer: a supplier proposing RPI indexation is proposing a higher escalator than CPI in almost every year, before any negotiation of caps or reference periods. From 2030 the RPI is planned to be aligned with CPIH methodology, which removes most of the gap.

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Where these numbers come from

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