Scotland Excel Domestic Furniture and
Furnishings Mobilisation Event, October 2016
Commercial User Intelligence Group Meeting
children the best start in life – we have developed
a proposal to support the procurement of these
services from external providers. We are now
engaging with stakeholders to explore funding
options.
We are also supporting the delivery of key policy
objectives in other areas. Over the past year, our
efforts to create opportunities for Scottish food
producers within the public sector supply chain
have delivered £3.34m of business through our
contracts. Working with Zero Waste Scotland, we
have aligned our environmental category strategy
with the Scottish Government’s Circular Economy
ambitions and Zero Waste Plan.
Having expanded our corporate portfolio into ICT
with contracts for online school payments and
customer service platforms, in 2016 we began
working in partnership with the newly-launched
Digital Office for Scottish Local Government. Our
focus has changed to providing procurement
support for their work to build a portfolio of
collaborative initiatives and projects that maximise
the value of digital technologies.
In April 2017, we introduced a new service for the
delivery of small value contracts at the request of
council procurement teams. These contracts free up
time for local teams to focus on other priorities and
are delivering savings which represent a significant
return on investment. Scotland Excel retains the
rebate from its groceries contract to deliver this
service, which demonstrates the potential of this
alternative funding model.
Following the success of Scotland Excel’s
Procurement Improvement Programme (PIP), which
supported a threefold increase in procurement
capability in local government over five years, we
took time in 2016 to consider the next steps for our
business change and learning and development
programmes, prompted by a change to the national
procurement assessment programme.
The new Procurement & Commercial Improvement
Programme (PCIP) takes a more strategic view
of an organisation’s procurement capability
and, by November 2017, we had completed PCIP
assessments with all 32 councils. We are now
developing a programme around the four priority
areas identified.
To support this, we have launched the Scotland
Excel Academy which offers multi-disciplined,
work-based learning opportunities in leadership
and management, procurement and project
management. Programmes available through
the Scotland Excel Academy are accredited by
the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and
the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply
(CIPS), with further accreditation by the Scottish
Qualifications Authority (SQA) in the pipeline.
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