Our mission
The main purpose of CGCoPE is to stimulate, facilitate and deliver advanced procurement across central government by:
- Conducting and facilitating collaborative procurement activity for the central government sector for Category B commodities
- Supporting the work of Procurement Scotland for Category A commodities
- Conducting Category C procurement and contract management for the core Scottish Government
- Continually developing excellent procurement and contract management practices and leading edge thinking, solutions and technology for/with all our stakeholders enabling their continuous delivery of value and commercial benefit
- Leading sustainable procurement best practice across the central government family to enable delivery of more sustainable outcomes to procurement activities across the three strands of Sustainable Procurement: social, economic and environmental
How will we deliver?
We will achieve our mission by:
- Consistently delivering measurable savings through regular benchmarking of our contracts
- Regularly communicating forthcoming tenders and contracts on our interactive website and through our bi-monthly e-newsletter
- Providing a platform for procurement professionals to communicate with each other on our members website
- Setting up and facilitating User Intelligence Groups for specific contracts
- Developing pre and post award toolkits and guidance to help procurement professionals do their job more effectively
- Developing sustainable procurement processes, systems, tools and guidance to complement the pre and post award toolkits to help procurement professionals take appropriate account of the social, economic and environmental impacts of their procurement activities
- Developing a central government family of procurement professionals
- Sharing procurement professionals with scarce market knowledge
- Providing opportunities for staff development by promoting training opportunities and best practice
- Keeping the central government family up-to-date with the latest news and procurement policy developments