Issue - meetings

That:

1)           the adoption of the Procurement Strategy, attached at Appendix 1 to the report, be agreed;

2)           the Chief Finance Officer be delegated authority to revise and update the Strategy as required to ensure legislative compliance and delivery of best practice in procurement and commissioning. 

The Executive considered a report setting out a proposed Procurement Strategy which was in accordance with the use of best practice and followed recommendations from the recent CIPFA review.

The Executive Member for Finance and Housing went through the report and advised that at the end of last year CIPFA had carried out a review of the Council’s procurement, contract management and commissioning processes and one of the objectives in the resulting action plan was to develop, adopt and maintain a Procurement Strategy.

Councillor Murray was pleased to note that the eighth mandatory assessment of the Procurement Strategy related to whether the business case considered relevant climate emergency actions.

RESOLVED that:

1)           the adoption of the Procurement Strategy, attached at Appendix 1 to the report, be agreed;

2)           the Chief Finance Officer be delegated authority to revise and update the Strategy as required to ensure legislative compliance and delivery of best practice in procurement and commissioning.