Procurement Expertise From Inside the Buyer's Office.
Linton & Thelwell Advisory Group helps public institutions modernize procurement — and equips commercial vendors to win government contracts. Led by a former Chief Procurement Officer with 25+ years overseeing portfolios from $200M to $3B.
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$3B+
Procurement portfolios overseen
25+
Years of public sector leadership
200+
RFPs evaluated as procurement officer
100%
Audit-defensible compliance frameworks
FOR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
Modernize Procurement. Strengthen Compliance.
Drive Results. We advise government agencies, K-12 school districts, higher education institutions, and public healthcare systems on procurement transformation, ERP modernization, strategic sourcing, governance reform, and organizational assessments. Each engagement is grounded in two decades of in-the-chair procurement leadership and audit defensible frameworks that survive regulatory scrutiny.
ADVISORY SERVICES
Procurement Transformation
ERP & eProcurement Implementation
Strategic Sourcing & Category Management
Procurement Governance & Compliance
Organizational Assessments
VENDOR PROGRAMS
RFP Compliance Scorecard - Free
Hidden Rules Training - Register Here
RFP Masterclass - Register Here
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FORÂ VENDORS
Stop Losing RFPs You Should Have Won.
Most vendors lose government RFPs for procedural reasons — not because they couldn't do the work. Compliance gaps. Misalignment with evaluation criteria. Generic marketing language where evidence belonged. We teach vendors to read RFPs the way a procurement officer scores them — because that's exactly the chair we sat in.
Take the Free ScorecardWHY LINTON & THELWELL
The Authority Comes From the Chair.
Most procurement consultants have read about how RFPs get scored. Our firm scored them — for two decades, across portfolios totaling more than $3 billion.
01 — INSIDE THE OFFICE
Twenty-five years leading procurement operations.
Across County government, K-12 school districts, higher education, and public health systems. The methodology is built from inside the office, not outside it.
02 — BOTH SIDES
Both sides of the table.
We advise public institutions on writing better RFPs and we train commercial vendors on responding to them. That dual perspective is uncommon — and it's why our work lands.
03 — AUDIT-DEFENSIBLE
Frameworks that hold up under scrutiny.
Every framework we deliver — for institutional clients and vendor trainees alike — is built to survive regulatory scrutiny. Theory isn't enough. The work has to hold up.
