Napo, the union for the probation service, has already spelled out what this procurement process looks like, having seen it at close range: in London, in 2012, Serco won the probation contract for £37m.
IT procurement typically looks only at performance and the initial cost.
Review your procurement policies when looking for suppliers and choose to source goods and services that have been produced sustainably and don't require excessive packaging.
Projects that increase the recyclability of packaging have already received $9.5m, while the government has promised to "lead by example" by looking into procurement rules that could, for example, mandate a level of recycled content in its purchases.
"Rather than setting up more talking shops, the government should be taking action to tackle higher energy prices, they should be providing export and procurement support and be looking at what temporary measures could help the industry, including looking again at business rates.
So, if you are in procurement and you're looking at your next round of buses and you did a cost analysis, what you'd find is that you could buy a diesel bus for half a million dollars, a natural gas bus for 600,000, hybrid bus probably for 700,000 and an electric would be somewhere between 650 to 750.
Busy procurement professionals are always looking for the 'quick win'.
And once you start looking at procurement policies from this point of view, you find many such impediments.
With our pharma procurement we're not looking at the countries where we have significant WASH programming and trying to build that investment on top of that programming, which is again a huge lost opportunity.
Although the majority of the procurement is now processed offshore, UNICEF is still handling and looking for local procurement opportunities, especially for constructions activities.
