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Traditional approaches to commissioning and procurement, coupled with financial pressures on councils,More talking and negotiating, rather than formal commissioning and procuring.,This open conversation – as opposed to the transactional nature of a classic procurement process (where,As part of this, the council looked to reform the way it was procuring its youth work services.,At this time, the area’s youth work services were procured in the traditional fashion, but Kevin Wells

Continuing to open up procurement and initiatives like Community Wealth Building is essential.

Community benefit clause: increasing the use of the clause in procurement contracts could be an incentive

for its conclusions to be made available before the end of this parliamentary session.’Rethinking procurement,: There must be a significant shift to person-centred procurement models that put the needs of beneficiaries

Rethinking procurement: There must be a significant shift to person-centred procurement models that put,Rethinking procurement There must be a significant shift to person-centred procurement models that put,Existing procurement models often do not respect the harsh realities that voluntary organisations are,Traditional procurement models also do not take account of the capacity issues felt by many specialist,Local Equality Impact Assessments on procurement must take this into serious consideration.

too long about the need for a more common-sense approach to funding, that looks past traditional procurement-based

agreements, and other arrangements causing as many complaints in my conversations with members as procurement

transport system, the transition away from fossil fuels, and generally stricter criteria for public procurement

However SCVO believes that the current procurement and commissioning processes need to be urgently reviewed,but are often prevented by short-term, project-based funding models and cumbersome, task-focused procurement,hope the First Minister will make these commitments a reality in short order and also ensure that procurement,Urgent reform of procurement and commissioning services is needed to ensure that people receive the best,We recommend that the current approach to commissioning and procuring care services be regarded as a