Procurement

The council purchases a range of goods and services from various suppliers to support our operations, and to deliver high-quality services to residents, businesses and visitors. This process is governed by our Procurement Strategy.

There are three themes to the strategy:

1. To adopt a more strategic category management approach to procuring goods and services by supporting services during design of service change and contract renewal.
2. To streamline and automate the tender process to make it easier for all suppliers to compete for contracts and cheaper for us to procure goods and services.
3. To strengthen supplier management methods with strategic suppliers and strengthen contract management once contracts are in place.

Our procurement processes include:

• Contract Procedure Rules, these are as shown in part 4 of our Constitution.
• publishing our current list of contracts over £5,000.
• the government's intermediaries’ legislation, known as IR35 - for the supply of services, including the HMRC online tool to check employment status for tax.