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YPO: see Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation; WECA, the West of England Combined Authority, operates a framework agreement for professional services related to highways. West Mercia Energy (WME) is a Public Buying Organisation specialising in the procurement of energy and associated services across the UK public sector. WME originated within West ...
At around £290 billion every year, public sector procurement accounts for around a third of all public expenditure in the UK. [1] EU-based laws continue to apply to government procurement: procurement is governed by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, Part 3 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015, [2] and (in Scotland) the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations of 2015 ...
It claims to be the 'largest formally constituted public sector buying organisation in the UK'. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] YPO was formed as the Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation in 1974 as a joint committee of local authorities, [ 7 ] and grew through the 1970s and 80s as schools gained power of their own budgets under the Local Management of Schools ...
The Crown Commercial Service ( CCS) is an executive agency and trading fund of the Cabinet Office of the UK Government. The CCS is responsible for managing the procurement of common goods and services, increasing savings for the taxpayer by centralising buying requirements, and leading on procurement policy on behalf of the government. [ 1]
Government procurement or public procurement is when a governing body purchases goods, works, and services from an organization for themselves or the taxpayers. [ 1][ 2][ 3] In 2019, public procurement accounted for approximately 12% of GDP in OECD countries. [ 4][ 5] In 2021 the World Bank Group estimated that public procurement made up about ...
The OGC operated through the Government Procurement Service, an executive agency now known as the Crown Commercial Service. The purpose of the OGC was to support the procurement and acquisition process of public sector organisations in the UK through policy and process guidance and the negotiation of overarching service and provision frameworks.
The basis of European procurement regulation lies in the provisions of the European Union treaties which prohibit barriers to intra-Union trade, provide the freedom to provide services and the right to establishment (three of the "Four Freedoms"), prohibit discrimination on the basis of national origin and regulate public undertakings and public monopolies. [3]
The UK Government G-Cloud is an initiative targeted at easing procurement by public-sector bodies in the United Kingdom of commodity information technology services that use cloud computing. [ 1] The G-Cloud consists of: The service began in 2012, and had several calls for contracts. [ 2] By May 2013 there were over 700 suppliers—over 80% of ...