Scotland's public bodies spend over £9bn each year on procurement, with construction accounting for more than 25% of the total.
In its first three years of operation, Procurement Lincolnshire saved £9m through better purchasing, from a total procurement budget of £194m per year before it was set up.
Well, the biggest thing, about a quarter of this £50bn budget, more than £10bn a year of local government procurement, is social care: mostly residential care, mostly for the elderly, and most through the independent sector.
Year on year, its procurement of sustainable timber is slowly inching upward.
Each year, the Procurement Center of the Central People's Government releases a list of the cars and models acceptable for government purchase.
The organization understands patent issues and benefits from nearly 60 years of experience in procurement and logistics.
In another pilot study, serum profiles were compared for a group of 30 women who were known BRCA-1 mutation carriers, half of whom subsequently developed breast cancer within three years of the sample procurement.
Already, a first bout of procurement will deliver around 175,000 elective (non-emergency) operations a year.
Nishan Suntares, from the Association of Healthcare Industries, blamed the "incredibly fragmented and diverse landscape" of procurement, which delayed the marketing of innovative devices often by a year or more.
A Transparency International report the same year found procurement, transport, food and medicine distribution and use of building materials among the most vulnerable areas to corruption.
