Procurement and Commissioning Strategy

Contents

• Policy summary
• Introduction
• Our current position
• Core policy: Address the Climate Emergency
• Core policy: Give people a bigger say
• Our principles
• Conclusions
• Other considerations

Core policy: Give people a bigger say

This policy aims to develop a more transparent, open and listening Council. 

We are taking action to achieve our key objectives

To give people a bigger say and to help us address this key ambition from a procurement perspective, we will be taking the following actions: 

• Action 13: Ensure all the procurement and commissioning activities follow the appropriate democratic decision-making process by engaging early with the Democratic Services team 
• Action 14: Build a community engagement model into procurement to ensure that we include the local residents and service users as stakeholders in all relevant commissioning processes and that proportionate consultation is undertaken at the right stage of the process 
• Action 15: Ensure all procurements subject to key decisions are reviewed by the appropriate Policy Development & Scrutiny Panel
• Action 16: Include Climate Emergency in all community stakeholder events to provide information to people to reduce their carbon footprint and single-use plastic usage
• Action 17: Provide the Climate Emergency Policy Development & Scrutiny Panel with a procurement pipeline to allow the Panel to monitor Climate Emergency issues.