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
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 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