Decision details

To approve the Corporate Procurement Plan 2013/14 and to approve the thresholds of the Council’s procurement intentions in excess of EU thresholds and provide an overview of significant procurement activity.

1)   The Corporate Procurement Plan 2013/14 be approved and the letting of contracts be delegated to Divisional Directors, subject to consultation with Assistant City Mayors where appropriate;

2)   The thresholds for inclusion in the 2013/14 Procurement Plan, as detailed in the report, be approved.

The Corporate Procurement Plan is required to be reviewed annually. It serves two principal purposes:

a)    To inform potential suppliers of major future market activity, including meeting the statutory requirement to publish planned procurement over the EU thresholds; and

b)   To provide the Executive and other readers with an overview of significant procurement activity and to enable links and efficiencies to be achieved.

Different options for the level of financial threshold at which contracts were included in the plan were considered and this is detailed at 3.8 of the report.