Would you like a procurement shared service?
1 April 2010
At the end of last year, the CGCoPE Supervisory Board approved a strategy for the implementation of shared services for Category C (organisation specific) procurement across central government.
One of the key aims of the strategy is to support smaller organisations that have little or no procurement capability and improve the co-ordination of central government procurement. An effective shared service solution would support the implementation of the new strategy, 'Accelerated Delivery', endorsed by the Public Procurement Reform Board chaired by John Swinney, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth.
A project has now been set up to take this forward and the consultation phase is underway. Karen Thomas is the project manager, on secondment from Registers of Scotland, and she would like to hear the views of as many of CGCoPE customers as possible to make sure that the solutions designed reflect the needs of a wide range of organisations.
Work in the coming months will include the following tasks:
- complete identification of target market for delivery of service;
- map out procurement landscape regarding people and capability;
- complete business case;
- complete procurement workload planning survey;
- create operational processes, governance and reporting arrangements; and
- agree service standards and account management systems.
Central government organisations can participate in this initiative in a number of ways, whether it is contributing to a regional hub, or providing support to or receiving support from another body.
For more information, please contact:
Karen Thomas
Project Manager
CGCoPE
The Scottish Government
0131 244 5472
karen.thomas@scotland.gsi.gov.uk