Strategic Procurement Team

The Strategic Procurement Teams priority is to provide a supportive, accountable, responsive and professional service to increase value and/or reduce cost and risk to best meet the needs of the borough.

This will be achieved by empowering and supporting the Council to make the right choice, given the right information, at the right time and be underpinned by the fundamental principles of value for money and good procurement practice, while maintaining the highest ethical standards and supporting the Councils priorities.

 

Our services include:

• Providing a strategic overview of Procurement activities in the Council.
• Seeking opportunities to improve Procurement activities in line with best practice.
• Providing the lead on Efficiency Savings to be derived from the supply chain.
• Reviewing and improving the Council's understanding on spending patterns and supplier performance.
• Ensuring the supply chain plays it part in helping the Council to achieve Corporate Plan objectives and initiatives.
• Enabling the application of a consistent approach to Procurement by the Council.
• The production and maintenance of a cohesive set of procedures, templates and tool-kits for Procurement activities.
• Promoting an awareness of the need to actively manage risk in the supply chain.
• Ensuring that our plans and policies do not negatively discriminate against any particular groups, and that our Procurement process is open and fair.