Agenda item

This report advises the Executive of progress made in drafting a new Corporate Procurement Strategy for 2007-2010, invites comments from them on its scope and content, seeks their views as to where the organisation should seek to position itself in relation to a series of key continuums relating to the nature, performance, function and organisation of procurement activities in the future, invites comments on the medium term action plan, and seeks endorsement of the Strategy and referral to Full Council for approval.

Members received a report which advised them of progress made in drafting a new Corporate Procurement Strategy for 2007-2010, invited comments from them on its scope and content, sought their views as to where the organisation should seek to position itself in relation to a series of key continuums relating to the nature, performance, function and organisation of procurement activities in the future, invited comments on the medium term action plan, and sought endorsement of the Strategy and referral to Full Council for approval.

Revised copies of page 151 of the report, to include the wording of the vision statement, and pages 161-171, to improve the clarity of the printing of the shaded table, had been circulated to Members.

Members welcomed the draft CPS and expressed support for the inclusion of an up front statement of commitment to ‘sustainable’ procurement by way of introduction to the Strategy itself.