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Markets and Collaborative Procurement

Government currently spends around £220bn on goods and services - that’s about £1 in every £4 spent in total by the Exchequer. It’s our aim to ensure that Government - both central Whitehall departments and the wider public sector - maximises the value it achieves from this spend through a variety of approaches: championing and facilitating collaboration across the major areas of third party spend; making the procurement process more efficient through the use of frameworks and e-procurement tools; reducing the negative environmental impact of goods and services purchased and working with suppliers to improve their sustainability performance;  improving spend data to assist better decision making, and engaging with Government’s strategic suppliers to foster greater innovation and value within the supply chain.

Collaborative Procurement mark

Signposting you to value for money savings

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Categories of Spend

Better co-ordinated buying of commodity goods and services will save money for the public sector.

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Collaborative Procurement mark

The Collaborative Procurement (CP) mark has been developed as a visual and easy way to signpost where procurement practitioners can find agreements, guidance and best practice that supports the governments procurement programme, leading to value for money savings.

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Government Procurement Card

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Contracts database

The contracts database signposts current and future frameworks and contracts available to public sector purchasers.

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Centre for e-auctions

Government e-auctions enable organisations realise their procurement goals with considerable cost savings.

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Public Spending

Government has published today (16 July) outputs from the Public Sector Procurement Expenditure Survey, conducted by OGC.

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Zanzibar

Zanzibar is an electronic procurement service designed for buyers in UK public sector to trade electronically with their suppliers securely over the Internet.

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