Issue - meetings

Background

The purpose of this report was to provide details of the new Procurement Strategy 2016-21 for the Council. The new Strategy reports on the successes of the previous Strategy and maintains targets and expands to include new targets. The challenges of supporting the local economy and delivering value for money remain as valid now as they were in the original strategy and for that reason the new strategy follows a similar format to the previous strategy.

In order to ensure that the Strategy was relevant, the draft strategy had been shared at the annual Meet the Buyer event which was attended by 500 businesses. In addition, the Business Support Overview and Scrutiny Committee undertook pre-decision scrutiny on the Strategy, on 7 July 2016, details of which were set out in paragraph 7 of the report.

Reasons

The new Strategy will continue the good work of the previous Strategy but with additional objectives to account for the changing financial and legislative landscape.