The council purchases a range of goods and services from various suppliers to support our operations, and to deliver high-quality services to residents, businesses and visitors. This process is governed by our Procurement Strategy.
There are three themes to the strategy:
- To adopt a more strategic category management approach to procuring goods and services by supporting services during design of service change and contract renewal.
- To streamline and automate the tender process to make it easier for all suppliers to compete for contracts and cheaper for us to procure goods and services.
- To strengthen supplier management methods with strategic suppliers and strengthen contract management once contracts are in place.
Our procurement processes include:
- Contract Procedure Rules, these are as shown in part 4 of our Constitution.
- publishing our current list of contracts over £5,000.
Procurement Alliance for Essex (PAE)
The Procurement Alliance for Essex (PAE) works to promote and facilitate collaborative procurement across Essex.Find out more