Procurement Strategy
Procurement Strategy
The Procurement Strategy covering April 2019–March 2022 is aimed at promoting effective procurement across the Council by setting out how the Council will:
- make procurement easier for suppliers and the Council alike
- increase the professionalism and commercial skill of those carrying out procurements for the Council
- give opportunity to local and SME suppliers to participate by increasing visibility of the Council’s procurement plans and opportunities
- maximise innovation, sustainability and collaboration in procurement activities
The Council developed an Interim Procurement Strategy to comply with the requirement to prepare and publish a procurement strategy by 31 December 2016. The first procurement strategy covered the remainder of the Council’s 2016/17 financial year and its full 2017/18 financial year.
On the 21st February 2019 It was recommended that Council agreed to adopt the Procurement Strategy and notes that the Procurement Strategy will be subject to an annual review.
This was after the Partnership and Performance Committee agreed on 31st January, 2019 to adopt the Strategy