A review of collaborative procurement across the public sector
- Authors:
- NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE, AUDIT COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- National Audit Office; Audit Commission
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The National Audit Office and the Audit Commission have jointly produced this review which describes the landscape of collaborative procurement across the public sector. The review draws on research in central government, local government and the National Health Service (NHS) carried out during the summer and autumn of 2009. The research focused on spending on eight standard commodities that are common throughout the whole public sector (energy, vehicle fleet, travel, office solutions, information and communications technology, professional services, food, and construction) though the findings have wider applicability. It builds on other recent work on public sector procurement, including the Operational Efficiency Programme (April 2009) and the Roots Review (February 2009).
- Subject terms:
- local government finance, NHS, public expenditure, resource allocation, budgetary control, central government, collaboration;
- Content type:
- research
- Location(s):
- United Kingdom
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