Services · Mobile app development · Procurement apps
We provide procurement software development in Manchester for housing providers, councils and their suppliers, manufacturers in Trafford Park, production companies at Salford Quays and growing firms in Spinningfields and NOMA. The systems we build handle requests, quotes, framework call-offs, supplier checks and invoice approval, and they record the local spend, fair employment and carbon commitments that Greater Manchester buyers now score in almost every tender.
In Greater Manchester, a contract is judged on more than price and quality. Buyers want to know how much stays in the city region, whether suppliers pay fairly, and how emissions fall over the contract term. Well designed software captures that once and reports it whenever someone asks.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
Capabilities
The ten local authority areas that make up Greater Manchester share a lot of procurement thinking through the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and so do many of the housing providers, NHS bodies and colleges that work alongside them. Social value is no longer a box on a form here; bidders make measurable commitments and buyers are expected to check delivery over the life of the contract. Private firms feel the same pull, because their biggest customers are often those public bodies. The modules below reflect that. Some clients need all of them; a Trafford Park manufacturer buying spares may need only four. Discovery decides the order, and we start with whatever removes the most manual work in the first months after launch.
Commitments made at bid stage, such as local jobs, apprenticeships, school engagement or spend with local small firms, stored as measurable targets against each contract. Suppliers report progress through their portal, buyers verify it, and the system shows which promises are on track and which are slipping long before the contract review meeting.
Social value stays a contract term, not a bid document promise.
Supplier addresses checked against the ten Greater Manchester boroughs, so reports show how much spend stays within the city region, how much reaches small firms and how that changes year to year. Results can be split by borough when a council or anchor institution needs its own picture.
Local spend figures come from data, not estimates.
Supplier records include fields for Real Living Wage accreditation, Good Employment Charter membership and similar commitments, with evidence uploads and expiry reminders. Buyers can filter approved suppliers by these standards when quoting for work where they carry weight in the evaluation. Accreditation status is rechecked when a supplier record is renewed.
Fair work standards are checked before an order is placed.
Carbon reduction plans, reported emissions and agreed milestones held against each supplier and contract. Dashboards roll these up so a housing provider or council can report progress against the city region's 2038 net zero ambition without rebuilding a spreadsheet every quarter. Suppliers enter their own figures, and buyers approve them.
Carbon claims are tied to real contracts.
Many Manchester buyers draw on frameworks run by regional or national purchasing bodies. The system holds framework lots, approved suppliers and call-off rules, runs mini competitions with structured scoring, and keeps the award reasons alongside the order that follows. Direct awards record the justification the framework allows.
Call-offs follow the framework rules every time.
For housing providers, orders raised against properties and repair jobs rather than general cost centres, with schedule of rates pricing, contractor allocation and completion photos. Tenants' homes and repair history stay linked to every purchase, which helps when a damp or disrepair complaint arrives. Contractors close jobs from a phone on site.
Every repair order traces back to a home and a job.
For manufacturers in Trafford Park and across the city region, minimum stock levels trigger draft orders to approved suppliers, with lead times and alternative sources recorded. Engineers raise urgent requests from the shop floor on a tablet when a line is down. Supplier lead times update from actual deliveries.
Downtime is not spent waiting for a purchase order.
Production companies around MediaCityUK hire freelancers, kit and locations for weeks rather than years. A light onboarding route captures insurance, right to work evidence, rates and bank details quickly, and closes the supplier when the production wraps. Repeat crew members skip steps they have already completed.
Crews are paid on time and records stay clean.
A mobile app for budget holders to approve requests, see remaining budget and query a line before signing. It suits managers who split their week between sites in Oldham, Bolton or Stockport and an office in the city centre. Delegated authority covers holidays and sickness.
Approvals follow managers, not their desks.
Agreed measures for each contract, such as response times, first time fix rates, complaints and safety incidents, scored monthly by the contract manager and visible to the supplier. Poor scores open an improvement plan with dates, and the history is there when the contract comes up for renewal or a re-tender.
Renewal decisions rest on a documented track record.
Is this for you
Greater Manchester mixes large public anchors with a dense private economy, and the two buy from each other constantly. We design for both sides of that relationship: the buyer who must show value for public money and the supplier who must prove what it promised. Codeeo works with Manchester clients remotely, running discovery and every review by video call from our teams in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, so plan for screen sharing rather than visits. Most projects begin with one of the four situations below, and many end up touching two of them once the first release is in use.
Social landlords across the city region buy repairs, planned works, cleaning and grounds maintenance at scale, usually under the Procurement Act 2023 where they count as contracting authorities. We build systems that connect purchasing to properties and repairs, track contractor performance against agreed measures and hold the social value each contractor promised. Regulator scrutiny of repairs and damp means the link between an order, a job and a home matters as much as the invoice. Planned works programmes, such as kitchens or windows across an estate, can be bought and tracked as a single package.
We confirm with your legal team whether the Act applies to your organisation.
If you bid for council, NHS or combined authority work, you already register your core details on the Central Digital Platform and answer social value questions in every tender. Custom procurement software development in Manchester can give you one place to hold those answers, the evidence behind them, and the delivery reports buyers ask for each quarter, so bid teams stop rebuilding the same material for each opportunity. Your delivery reports then draw from the same records, which keeps bid claims and contract reality consistent.
Trafford Park, Ashton and the warehouses near Manchester Airport host firms whose procurement is mostly direct materials, spares and haulage. They need reorder points, supplier lead times, quality holds on goods received and purchase orders that match delivery notes. We keep office forms to a minimum and put the most used actions on tablets and phones for people on the floor or in the yard. Haulage bookings and carrier invoices can be matched against delivery records in the same system.
Salford Quays, Ancoats and the Northern Quarter are full of studios and agencies buying freelance talent, software licences and equipment hire. Their purchasing is fast, project based and often charged back to a client. We build project codes into every order, light onboarding for freelancers and licence renewal tracking, so a production finishes with its costs fully reconciled. Approval limits can differ by client account, which suits agencies with very different budgets running side by side. Licence renewals across the studio appear in one calendar.
Engagement models
Three routes cover most Manchester clients. A fixed scope project suits a defined first release such as requests, approvals and social value tracking. A retainer suits organisations that want steady improvements after launch. A dedicated team suits larger programmes across several boroughs or business units. Codeeo is a team of 80+ across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi with 200+ projects delivered across the UAE and the US, rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. If you are comparing a procurement software development company in Manchester with a remote team, ask each one how they evidence social value data; it is where most systems fall short.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Typical builds use React or Next.js for the web portal, Flutter for the mobile approval app, and Node or .NET services hosted in UK cloud regions. Reporting can feed Power BI if your board packs already live there, and supplier sign in can use email links rather than passwords. Every choice is explained in plain terms so your own IT team can support it.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on integrations and data quality more than features.
A first release covering requests, approvals and supplier onboarding is quicker when your housing management and finance systems offer clean APIs and your supplier list is tidy. Linking orders to properties, migrating years of repair contractor records or connecting several ledgers after a merger all extend the plan. We set the dates in writing at the end of discovery, once we have seen your systems and data. Later phases, such as contractor scorecards or a tenant facing repairs link, are planned and dated separately so the first release is not held up by them.
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