The phrase "collaborative procurement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to purchasing or sourcing where multiple parties work together to acquire goods or services.
Example: "The companies decided to engage in collaborative procurement to leverage their combined purchasing power and reduce costs."
Alternatives: "joint procurement" or "cooperative purchasing".
So is collaborative procurement between universities – where they share facilities, resources and equipment – a better model?
Ealing's McLester points to further benefits, including collaborative procurement and free services for suppliers.
"Collaborative procurement has to be the way forward and one that everyone will seek," he says.
The deal also was supported by an external procurement project adviser from the East of England Collaborative Procurement Hub.
Councils also discuss collaborative procurement, including frameworks for when they require the same products but at different times.
London boroughs say they are working together to make significant savings through collaborative procurement in key areas of spending such as IT, adult social care and construction.
BSR, "Collaborative Initiatives: Procurement Leadership Group," n.d., https://www.bsr.org.
Sean Starbuck, of the Fire Brigades Union, said: "We are already involved in a collaboration like this with more than 20 brigades around the country, and we welcome a national collaborative approach to the procurement of firefighters' protective clothing and equipment.
You need to make this a collaborative effort, not a top-down procurement project".
The charge of the Breakthrough Collaborative is to rapidly enable organ procurement organizations (OPOs) to increase deceased organ donation and utilization rates in the community.
Two years ago, a report on the previous government's operational efficiency programme stopped short of imposing any central mandate on government bodies to work in more collaborative ways, saying such collaboration would "increase the flexibility of organisations right across the public sector to obtain procurement efficiencies from a range of available best-value deals".
