COLUMBIA SKY PROCUREMENT | Your Global Partner for Aviation Group Procurement
COLUMBIA SKY PROCUREMENT | Your Global Partner for Aviation Group Procurement
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COLUMBIA SKY PROCUREMENT | Your Global Partner for Aviation Group Procurement
COLUMBIA SKY PROCUREMENT | Your Global Partner for Aviation Group Procurement

Your Global Partner for Aviation Procurement

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What We Do

We are a dynamic Group Purchasing Organisation dedicated to connecting operators of Private, Business, and Commercial Aircraft with a carefully curated network of product and service providers, all aimed at driving economic efficiencies. At CSP, our mission is to negotiate global framework agreements tailored to the unique needs of our members, ensuring they access the best possible value and solutions in the industry. Together, we create a powerful alliance that empowers operators to thrive.

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Our Approach

Our entire model is built on a foundation of transparency and efficiency. By harnessing the collective strength of our members, we’re not just delivering benefits; we’re forging robust partnerships that stand the test of time. Our goal is to seamlessly integrate with our members’ procurement teams, adding an invaluable layer of expertise to help them expertly manage costs. Together, we’re redefining what it means to collaborate in the world of procurement.

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Our Mission

Our mission is to revolutionise the aviation procurement process, making it not just efficient but truly effective for both our members and suppliers. By prioritising strong partnerships and fostering collective benefits, we aim to create a collaborative ecosystem where everyone thrives. Together, we’re not just streamlining procurement; we’re elevating the entire aviation industry

CSP As Your Global Partner

 

Focus on Growth, Not Procurement: Aviation operators rarely have the resources for a full-time procurement team. At CSP, we fill that gap, allowing you to focus on growing your fleet, satisfying clients, and expanding services. Our procurement experts handle everything, from sourcing suppliers to negotiating contracts, ensuring cost efficiency without compromising on quality.

Fuel Procurement Experts: Our specialised fuel procurement service leverages strategic partnerships around the world to provide competitive fuel pricing. We manage tenders, verify invoices, and implement price benchmarking, giving you peace of mind and driving cost reductions across all locations.

FBO Network Optimisation: Optimising your FBO network can lead to significant savings. CSP negotiates strategic agreements at key locations, allowing for cost-effective and efficient ground operations. Our seamless process integrates into your current operations, ensuring no disruptions while enhancing service quality.

Comprehensive Solutions: From aviation supplies to bespoke procurement strategies, CSP is your one-stop shop for all procurement needs. We collaborate closely with your team to tailor solutions that meet your operational requirements while continuously assessing cost performance and driving savings.

Transparency & Accountability: At CSP, transparency is a cornerstone of our service. Every invoice is meticulously verified for compliance with agreed terms and pricing. Our dedicated procurement team ensures no detail is overlooked, and discrepancies are handled quickly and transparently, giving you the peace of mind to focus on flying.

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Fuel Procurement

    • Global Reach, Competitive Rates: Wherever your fleet flies, CSP ensures seamless fuel procurement at unbeatable rates through our extensive network of suppliers.
    • Tendering Process: We handle the entire tendering process for you, customised to your fleet’s specific needs, saving you both time and resources.
    • Invoice Verification: Our detailed invoice verification process ensures financial accuracy, flagging any discrepancies for resolution.

 Handling Procurement

    • Seamless Ground Handling: Whether you operate at major airports or regional hubs, we offer optimised FBO procurement solutions, ensuring smooth operations on the ground.
    • Pre-Negotiated Pricing: Benefit from our established relationships with FBO service providers to secure the best deals and ensure seamless integration into your operations.
    • Invoice Verification: Every FBO service is meticulously verified for pricing accuracy and compliance.

Why CSP

Capitalizing on global partnerships

Cost-effective due to fleet pricing

Benefits for both the CSP member and service provider

Strategic partnership that drives efficient pricing

Decrease in time and resources spent to find products and services

Immediate benefits for each aircraft on the CSP platform

Latest News & Updates

  • Maximising Fuel Savings Through Strategic Procurement: CSP’s fuel procurement strategies drive significant cost reductions through tailored tenders, invoice verification, and benchmarking.

  • Optimising Your FBO Network For Maximum Efficiency: CSP enhances your FBO services by negotiating favourable terms, ensuring optimal service at key locations, and delivering measurable cost savings.

  • See You At NBAA-BACE Expo In Las Vegas! Our team will be attending the NBAA-BACE Expo this October. Schedule a meeting to discuss how CSP can optimise your procurement strategy.

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    Privacy Policy

    General Privacy Notice (“Notice”)

    Introduction

    Columbia Sky Procurement Ltd (CSP) recognise and respect the rights and privacy of our applicants, current and former employees, suppliers, and customers.

    This Notice explains what we do with your personal data, whether you are applying for employment with us, visiting our premises, continuing your relationship with us, we are providing you with a service or we are receiving a service from you.

    It describes how we collect, use and process your personal data, and how, in doing so, we comply with our legal obligations. Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting and safeguarding your data privacy rights.

    This Notice applies to the personal data of our Data Subjects, for example, our Employees, Customers, Visitors, Suppliers of goods and services, and other people whom we may contact in order to find out more about our Employees or whom they indicate as an Emergency contact.

    Legal framework

    This Notice is written to comply with the applicable data protection legislation, which includes, but is not limited to, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

    The company responsible for your personal Data (Data Controller)

    Name: Columbia Sky Procurement Ltd

    Phone: +357 25843100

    Address: 21 Spyrou Kyprianou Ave., Yermasoyia 4042 Limassol, Cyprus

    How do we use data?

    CSP may process personal data as part of its services, employment, risk management, document processing, marketing, procurement.

    What personal data do we collect?

    Prospective and current Employees:

    In order to consider you for employment, or employ you, we need to process certain information about you. We only ask for details that will help us provide what is required as part of your application process or employment. For example, we need information such as your name, age, contact details, education details, employment history, emergency contacts, next of kin, immigration status, passport size photos, passport copies, bank account details, utility bills and of course other relevant information required for the purposes of your employment or that you may choose to share with us. Where appropriate and in accordance with local laws and requirements, we may also collect information related to your health, diversity information or details of any criminal convictions.

    To enable employees to conduct CSP’s business, all employees will have access to one another’s business contact information including name, position, office telephone number, work address, work e-mail address, and photograph (if you choose to provide one).

    Customers

    To enable us to communicate with you and to ensure that we fulfil certain legal requirements such as KYC and AML, we need to have certain details or the details of individual contacts at your organisation (such as their names, telephone numbers and email addresses). We ensure that our marketing communications to you are relevant and timely.

    Suppliers of goods and services

    We obtain a small amount of information from our Suppliers to ensure that things run smoothly. We need contact details of relevant individuals at your organisation so that we can communicate with you.

    Emergency contacts

    As part of due diligence and to protect the vital interests of our Data Subjects we, under certain circumstances, collect emergency contact details.

    Visitors

    When visiting our premises, we collect the necessary personal data required for security and notification purposes.

    The legal bases we use for lawful processing

    In order for CSP to conduct business and fulfil its legal, regulatory and contractual obligations, it needs to perform legitimate and fundamental processing. These are:

    1. Establishing contracts

    2. Maintaining contracts

    3. Provision of all contracted services

    4. Invoicing, remittance, payments, collections

    5. Non-promotional communications

    6. Marketing and other promotional communications

    7. Risk management contract review

    8. Response to Subject Requests

    9. Performance measurement

    10. IT and telecommunication support services

    11. Business Continuity and Contingency Planning

    12. Legal and regulatory obligations

    13. Responding to enquiries, requests and complaints

    14. Employment processing

    15. Workforce planning

    16. Training and certifications

    17. Emergency communications

    18. To interact with other organizations, industry groups, professional associations

    19. Internal ethics reporting, security and investigations

    The categories of people who will access or receive the data

    CSP needs to share the personal information it processes with individuals themselves and also with other organisations. Below is a description of the types of organisations with which CSP may need to share some of the personal information it processes.

    1.Agents and brokers
    2.Business associates, other professional bodies, advisers
    3.Central / local government
    4.Claimants, beneficiaries, assignees and payees
    5.Claims investigators
    6.Complainants, enquirers
    7.Courts and tribunals
    8.Credit reference, debt collection and tracing agencies
    9.Current, past and prospective employers
    10.Customers
    11.Debt collection and tracing agencies
    12.Education and examining bodies
    13.Employment and recruitment agencies
    14.Family, associates and representatives of the person whose personal data we are processing
    15.Financial organisations and advisers
    16.Healthcare professionals, social and welfare organisations
    17.Law enforcement and prosecuting authorities
    18.Ombudsman and regulatory authorities
    19.Other companies in the same group
    20.Pension schemes
    21.Police forces
    22.Private investigators
    23.Professional advisers
    24.Share Administrators
    25.Suppliers and services providers
    26.Survey and research organisations
    27.Unions, trade associations, professional bodies, employer associations

    The countries where data will be stored, processed and transferred

    Your personal data collected by CSP may be stored and processed in the EU or any other country in which CSP or associated third parties maintain facilities. Should CSP need to transfer your personal data, we will take all reasonable measures to safeguard the transfer of your personal data to third parties in a manner that complies with the applicable data protection laws.

    How long the data will be retained?

    Retention of specific records may be necessary for one or more of the following reasons:

    1. Fulfilling statutory or other regulatory requirements

    2. Evidencing events/agreements in case of disputes

    3. Operational needs

    4. Historical and statistical purposes

    Where we collect personal data for which we subsequently have no use for any business purpose, we then review and may destroy such personal data at our discretion.

    The right to withdraw consent

    In situations where CSP requests and receives your consent to perform processing, we are also obliged to stop such processing if you decide to withdraw your consent. Withdrawing consent is as straightforward as giving consent. Withdrawing consent cannot be backdated so it has no effect on processing already performed during the period of consent.

    The right to access, change, delete, restrict, object, request a copy

    Under certain circumstances, you have rights regarding the personal data we store on your behalf. These are:

    1. Access to a copy of your personal data

    2. Object to processing that you object to

    3. Stop receiving direct marketing material

    4. Object to decisions being taken by automated means

    5. Have inaccurate personal data rectified, blocked, erased or destroyed

    6. Lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority

    7. Claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the GDPR

    What happens if the data is not collected?

    Your personal data is required for communication and setting up a contractual agreement to provide employment, products, and services. Without this data CSP will not be able to communicate with you or enter into a contractual agreement with you. This includes both business and employment contracts.

    CSP needs personal data to:

    1. Enable consensual bilateral communications

    2. Engage in pre-contractual activities

    3. Honour contractual obligations

    4. Enable it to employ people

    Without this data, CSP will not be able to perform these primary activities.

    Cookies

    Our use of cookies

    Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. We use necessary cookies to make our website work. We would also like to set analytics cookies that help us make improvements by measuring how you use the website.

    Necessary cookies

    Necessary cookies are crucial to your experience of a website, enabling core features like user logins, account management, shopping carts, and payment processing. Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

    We use necessary cookies to enable certain functions on our website.

    Performance cookies

    Performance cookies track how you use a website during your visit. Typically, this information is anonymous and aggregated, with information tracked across all website users. They help companies understand visitor usage patterns, identify and diagnose problems or errors their users may encounter, and make better strategic decisions in improving their audience’s overall website experience. We would like to set Google Analytics cookies to help us improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone. These will be off by default and set only if you accept.

    We use performance cookies on our website.

    Targeting cookies

    Targeting cookies help determine what promotional content is most relevant and appropriate to you and your interests. Websites may use them to deliver targeted advertising or limit the number of times you see an advertisement. This helps companies improve the effectiveness of their campaigns and the quality of content presented to you. These will be off by default and set only if you accept. Targeting cookies set by third-parties may be used to track you on other websites that use the same third-party service.

    We use Targeting cookies on our website.

    How do I change my cookie settings?

    Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, we recommend to visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

    To find information relating to your specific browser, please visit your browser’s website.

    To opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, you can visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout .

    Automated decision making

    CSP does not use automated decision-making.

    Changes to our Notice

    Any changes we make to our Notice in the future will be accordingly communicated to all parties involved.

    Where CSP intends to further process your personal data for a purpose other than that for which the personal data were collected, CSP shall provide you, prior to that further processing, with information on that other purpose and with any relevant further information.