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The PE Technology Procurement Playbook:
$2.1M in Savings Through Strategic Sourcing
12 is the new 5. Portfolio companies that once needed 5% EBITDA growth now need 10 to 12% to deliver the same returns. The largest ungoverned cost on the P&L is hiding in plain sight: technology procurement.
The math:
• 18 to 26% software overpayment
• 32% of cloud spend wasted on idle resources
• 61% of SaaS apps have zero active users(
• 76 cybersecurity tools per enterprise on average
• 58% of PE leaders struggle to capture procurement value
A 25% procurement reduction on a $200M portco delivers $2.1M in EBITDA, $16.8M in exit value at 8x, and $84M across five portcos.
Inside:
• 2.1M savings model across all 5 IT categories
• The 100-day procurement framework from visibility through execution to governance
• The four structural reasons mid-market portfolios systematically miss this value
• A procurement readiness checklist you can apply to any portfolio company this quarter
The $2.1M is real. The question is whether your portfolio is capturing it.