Doncaster Council

About the National Procurement Strategy

The present government believes that getting procurement right is important and it is about improving the delivery and cost effectiveness of quality public services to citizens.

The National Procurement Strategy has helped councils recognise the potential of effective and innovative procurement to improve service delivery. It will help councils to realise potential savings and other benefits from working together in Partnership.

The National Procurement Strategy for local government illustrates how to use innovative ways to procure, work in partnership with others and manages services that will:

• Better achieve community plan objectives;
• Deliver consistently high quality services that meet users' needs, with a range of partners from other sectors; 
• Provide savings and better value for money, thereby improving the cost effectiveness of the council;
• Build social cohesion and promote equality of opportunity for service users, businesses and council staff;
• Be sustainable for the communities and areas served and benefit local citizens;
• Support delivery of the council's e-government agenda;
• Enable councils to manage and assess risks in the market place; and 
• Be delivered through different structures and in new forms.             

Please read the National Procurement Strategy for further information. In the Strategy the government describes what has been achieved so far and set out a three-year Strategy 2003-2006, designed to realise the full potential of local government procurement. 

• National Procurement Strategy