FOI Request - Procurement Operating Model
Request 101003046354
1. Approximately how many employees does the Council have? (please exclude arms length organisation staff, teachers and teachers assistants)
Financial Years Approximate No. of Employees
2021-2022 < Council to enter figures here>
2020-2021 <Council to enter figures here>
2019-2020 <Council to enter figures here>
2. Approximately how many employees conduct procurement activity within the organisation? (Include anyone with Delegated Procurement Authority)
(please exclude arms length organisation staff, teachers and teachers assistants)
Financial Years Approximate No. of Employees
- Central Procurement Approximate No. of Employees - Service Area
2021-2022 <Council to enter figures here> <Council to enter figures here>
2020-2021 <Council to enter figures here> <Council to enter figures here>
2019-2020 <Council to enter figures here> <Council to enter figures here>
3. Please select area within the Council which conducts most of the activity within the areas below? Please enter a YES in one column and a NO in the other.
Delivered mostly by Central / Corporate procurement Delivered mostly within procuring service area
Develop contract strategy / internal governance documents i.e. sourcing methodology, contract strategy and benchmarking <Council to enter YES/NO> <Council to enter YES/NO>
Develop specification <Council to enter YES/NO> <Council to enter YES/NO>
Develop tender documents <Council to enter YES/NO> <Council to enter YES/NO>
Issue tender documents <Council to enter YES/NO> <Council to enter YES/NO>
Oversee tender evaluation i.e. Lead Procurement <Council to enter YES/NO> <Council to enter YES/NO>
Evaluate responses <Council to enter YES/NO> <Council to enter YES/NO>
Progress contract award <Council to enter YES/NO> <Council to enter YES/NO>
Conduct contract supplier management <Council to enter YES/NO> <Council to enter YES/NO>
4. Please confirm Councils general revenue budget for the last 3 financial years?
Financial Years Council Revenue Budget
2021-2022 <Council to enter figures here>
2020-2021 <Council to enter figures here>
2019-2020 <Council to enter figures here>
5. Please confirm Council capital budget for the last 3 financial years?
Financial Years Council Revenue Budget
2021-2022 <Council to enter figures here>
2020-2021 <Council to enter figures here>
2019-2020 <Council to enter figures here>
6. Does your organisation operate a devolved or centralised procurement operating model?
Devolved defined as the service areas having responsibility to conduct their own regulated and non-regulated procurement activity themselves, higher value / higher risk may be handled by Corporate Procurement Team.
Centralised defined as the Central/Corporate Procurement team conducting most procurement activity for both regulated and non-regulated spend on behalf of the services.
If none of the above what model does your organisation operate?
<Council to enter devolved or centralised and if possible a brief description on how the model operates>
<If none of the above, please detail the model used and how procurement activity works within the Council>
7. Please provide the approximate population within Council area?
Financial Years Approximate Population
2021-2022 <Council to enter figures here>
2020-2021 <Council to enter figures here>
2019-2020 <Council to enter figures here>
8. Please provide the geographic area covered by the Council (in km2)?
<Council to enter figures here based on km2>
9. Please provide access/link/copy of your organisation’s most recently published commercial pipeline / forward procurement plan?
<Council to provide link or copy of the most recent commercial pipeline/ forward procurement plan>
10. Please provide the contact information for general Procurement activity within the Council?
<Council to provide information related to the area which can be contacted to discussed>
Response 06-07-2022
Updated 19-10-2023:
The information you requested has been sent to the requester directly.