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
  • Preparing for the future
  • Deliver for local residents
  • Focus on prevention
• Conclusions
• Other considerations

Focus on prevention

We aim to provide help early to reduce demand across services,, focus on building on local strengths and reducing inequalities.

In order to focus on prevention, we will take the following actions: 

• Action 24: Ensure necessary data capture to identify service demand is built into contracts by working with Business Intelligence Team to improve methods of monitoring throughout the life of the contract

• Action 25: Include demand management as key aspect of Contract Management Framework

• Action 26: Include Climate Emergency topic in all Supplier Events to provide suppliers with information to reduce their Carbon footprint and single-use plastic usage