Issue - meetings

Procurement Mid-Term Monitoring Report

Meeting: 11/12/2007 - Executive Member For Corporate Services and Advisory Panel (Item 47)

47 Corporate Procurement Team Mid-Term Monitor 2007/08 PDF 54 KB

This report informs Members of the work and progress of the Corporate Procurement Team to date in 2007/08.

Additional documents:

Decision:

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member be advised:

That the contents of this report and the progress made by the Corporate Procurement Team to date be noted.

Decision of the Executive Member

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:To advise Members of the progress made to date in delivering an effective and efficient procurement service to the Council.

Minutes:

Members considered a report which informed Members of the work and progress of the Corporate Procurement Team to date in 2007/08.

Council approved the new Corporate Procurement Strategy and medium term action plan in June 2007. The medium term action plan comprised 63 core actions to be taken over the next 3 years in order to achieve improvement as set out in strategy’s continuums. Appendix B of this report set out progress to date against these. In summary work was now in progress on 20 actions and a further 43 were not yet scheduled. The key progress in the last 6 months included:

· adoption of a corporate procurement strategy, policy and medium term action plan;

· publication of a complementary procurement manual;

· phase 1 of Supplier Contract Management System (SCMS) project plan including officer training completed in preparation for full live contract register from 1 April 2008

· implementation of three major new corporate framework contracts for – Legal, Property and Agency Staff.

Members highlighted that a more strategic approach was needed to procurement and that a future issue for procurement would be embedding it in the wider organisation, which would require a training and communication programme.