• Procurers and buyers - you can make a difference
• Local public policy perspective
• National Drivers to local procurement
• Building sustainability in to your procurements
• Finding the balance - Value for money versus community benefits
• Tested legal approaches to getting the best value for your community
• Practical steps – best practice
• The PQQ
• The ITT
• Feeding back to suppliers
• Quotation level expenditure
• Ready reckoner
• Local multiplier 3
• Case sudies
• Is Local Legal?

As a purchaser what you want is a good quality of goods or service at the right price. You need to be able to manage a contract efficiently and effectively. You should be confident that you have acted correctly and not laid your organisation open to legal challenge.

This website will not recommend:

- that you break EU or UK Regulations
- that you should favour local suppliers

Or

- that you should accept a lower quality or a higher price than you originally envisaged.

Businesses, social enterprises and community and voluntary organisations across South East Northumberland are being actively encouraged to become more competitive so that they can win business not just in their local area but regionally and nationally too.

Lots of businesses in Wansbeck and the local area of South East Northumberland are already very competitive and winning business from the public sector – although much of it tends to be for local authorities, education and health care providers and government departments elsewhere in the country!

This website will offer guidance on how you can take steps to achieve your organisation’s wider policy aims but also balance this with a need to consider using the resources of the “public purse” wisely.

So why might you want to change your standard way of working? The figures speak for themselves – try our ready reckoner and see what a difference you could be making to the people your organisation is working for.

Can we help?

Are you struggling with the concepts and how they could relate to your organisation?

If you have a procurement exercise planned and would like the Procurement Centre to research and advise you on how you might be able to include economic (but also environmental and social) issues, then please contact us.

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