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It is truly astonishing that there are no central procurement agreements for the several hundred millions of pounds – possibly more than £1bn of procurement – spent on "specials".
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Most government departments have a procurement spend that is too small to justify highly paid CPOs.
This will focus on the £18bn annual procurement spend by hospital trusts (excluding the drugs used by them).
However, I challenged the association to go a step further and to use its entire procurement spend for community benefit.
This would provide a solid platform for the reform of the management of the £200bn annual public sector procurement spend.
The creation of foundation hospitals, with their greater independence, makes it still more difficult to co-ordinate procurement spend or know how much is being spent on what.
So far this approach has reduced procurement spend by £1bn and the new collective service means savings are expected to reach more than £3bn a year.
But evidence presented to the committee by the Centre for Local Economic Strategies showed how targeting procurement spend into dilapidated areas can regenerate them.
As DWP commercial director, he is responsible for all commercial and contract management activity and its procurement spend of some £5bn per year.
That would equate to up to 4% of procurement spend by NHS trusts, or enough to cover the earnings of up to an extra 16,000 junior doctors.
Transfield has over 15 social enterprises in its supply chain and Westpac plans a procurement spend of at least $3 million on Indigenous businesses.
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