# Procurement Optimizer

Cut software and services spend through seat-utilisation analysis, redundant-tool...

- Repository: https://github.com/borghei/Claude-Skills (1026 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT + Commons Clause
- Last updated: 2026-10-23
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add borghei/Claude-Skills --skill procurement-optimizer -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add borghei/Claude-Skills --skill procurement-optimizer -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add borghei/Claude-Skills --skill procurement-optimizer -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add borghei/Claude-Skills --skill procurement-optimizer -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add borghei/Claude-Skills`

## Description

Cut software and services spend through seat-utilisation analysis, redundant-tool detection, and renewal-timing leverage. Use when auditing SaaS spend, preparing a renewal negotiation, or hunting a budget-reduction target.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Procurement Optimizer

Most software spend reduction is not a negotiation problem. It is a measurement problem:
organisations buy seats in round numbers, assign them generously, and never look at whether
anyone logs in. The typical mid-size portfolio carries 20-30% reclaimable seat spend before
anyone talks to a vendor, and the reclaim requires no concession from the vendor at all.

This skill works the levers in order of yield: **stop paying for unused seats**, then
**stop paying twice for the same capability**, then **negotiate price**. Reversing that
order, leading with a price negotiation on a bloated contract, is how organisations
congratulate themselves on a 10% discount against 40% more seats than they need.

## When to use this skill

- A **budget-reduction target** has landed and software spend is in scope
- A **renewal is approaching** and you need a defensible position before the vendor call
- **SaaS sprawl audit**: nobody can say how many tools the company pays for
- **Post-merger consolidation** where two portfolios overlap heavily
- Building a **renewal calendar** so contracts stop auto-renewing unexamined
- A vendor has proposed an **uplift** and you need leverage to counter it

## Inputs the skill expects

- **Spend inventory**: tool, category, annual cost, renewal date, contract term
- **Seat data**: purchased, assigned, and, critically, *active in the last 30 days*
- **Contract terms**: notice period, auto-renew flag, term length
- **Criticality** per tool, and whether a capability alternative exists
- **Headcount**, for per-head benchmarking
- The **as-of date**, so renewal-window maths is reproducible

## Clarify First

Before generating, settle the inputs below. When one is missing or vague and would change the result, ask about it; when it wouldn't, use a sensible default and say which one you used.

The rest: https://github.com/borghei/Claude-Skills/blob/HEAD/business-operations/procurement-optimizer/SKILL.md