Key objective 2: Consider suppliers’ capability to address these environmental impacts throughout the supply chain when awarding contracts
We will inform the local market through the our Commissioning Intentions and local Meet the Buyer events as to the upcoming procurement exercises. This gives companies the chance to express an interest early and identify areas of innovation that may be of interest to us.
We will make our potential suppliers and contractors aware of our zero carbon policy through our Procurement documentation. Where possible we must only do business with companies who can assist us to achieve these aims. Our tender evaluation process will be improved to assess bids with the Climate Emergency in mind.
We will link strategic contracts to the Climate Emergency agenda by ensuring that relevant contracts contain appropriate Service Level Agreements with measurable Key Performance Indicators.
We will give relevant Officers training in the principals of Contract Management. This will allow us to ensure that suppliers carry out their commitments to us and that these are measured, recorded and acted upon where a supplier fails to meet those commitments.
We are taking action to achieve our key objectives
In order to consider our suppliers' capabilities to address these environmental impacts throughout the supply chain, when awarding contracts we will take the following actions:
- Action 6: Ensure all procurement documents point bidders to the strategy and ask them to advise how they will support it
- Action 7: Ensure Contract Managers have meetings with strategic suppliers to identify how Climate Emergency provisions will be made in existing contracts – may need Contract amendments
- Action 8: Build Climate Emergency into Contract Management framework to monitor supplier performance