Raising our Game

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Raising our Game

• The Centre of Expertise in Sustainable Procurement

William JordanActing Chief Sustainability Officer
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Delivery Plan For Sustainable Procurement

• Background
• Government response to SDC annual report March
  2008 promised Delivery Plan for sustainable
  operations and procurement (plus Chief
  Sustainability Officer and Centre of Expertise in
  Sustainable Procurement both in OGC)
• Content
• Sustainable operations
• Targets for sustainable operations on the
  government estate
• Sustainable procurement
• Delivering the governments Sustainable
  Procurement Action Plan and the Prime Ministers
  Delivery Unit recommendations
• Other government commitments
• e.g. 43 recommendations from SDC, zero carbon
  public buildings
• Enablers
• Up to date reporting through OGC E-Pims database
• Format
• Plan sets out vision actions milestones and
  trajectories incentives delivery
  partners/stakeholders governance programme
  management
• focuses primarily on CSR07 years

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Next Steps Some Highlights

• Sustainable Operations
• Out-turn data for 07/08 validated by SDC
• Revised trajectories and milestones
• Reviews of any problems that emerge
• Pilots for up-to-date reporting onto OGC E-Pims
  database
• Sustainable Procurement
• Develop performance measures
• Review of mandated mechanisms
• Develop a programme of engagement with the
  governments suppliers
• Capability strategy to raise the governments
  capability and leadership in sustainable
  procurement and operations.
• Shaping the forward agenda
• Engaging with the EU forward agenda and become
  leaders in sustainable procurement in EU by 2009
• Responding to recommendations on targets, from
  SDC, NAO, EAC
• Recommendations from EAC, WSBF

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Some Issues

• Sustainability economic, social, environmental?
  
• Procurement policy guidance
• Procurement practice
• Targets
• Scope local government, health, education?
• Programme of collaborative procurement
• The Sustainable Development Action Plans process
• Best practice sharing
• Sustainability and Affordability?
• Green Book advice on value for money
• Collaborative procurement programme
• More detailed guidance, with worked examples,
  required?