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Use government procurement to promote Living Wages and tax rebates to businesses who sign up to pay Living

Squeezes to public sector funding have affected smaller local organisations and procurement procedures

When the Procurement Reform Bill was going through parliament, we argued that the living wage should,Three, Scottish Government should use the new EU Directive on Public Procurement to make payment of the

Procurement must better support local organisations especially in rural and remote areas.

Finally, but perhaps not right now, I’d like to explore how procurement can be used to promote digital,to make statements demonstrating their practical alignment with such policies as part of the pre-procurement

available working with providers to develop the services people will need in future developing procurement,strategies and plans undertaking procurement exercises monitoring and reviewing the services" [v] Regulations,This is not helped by how services are planned for and procured.

New Procurement Act has long way to go to deliver real change

public – the public test The above activities can be “reasonably regarded as intending to promote or procure

female applicants to the Fund, and the need to investigate this furtherxv Operation of IT systems procured

Summary This Bill fails to address how procurement can be used to benefit people and communities across,Without changes, the opportunity of this Bill to truly imbed sustainable procurement into contracting,The Bill should create a differentiated approach to procurement between “Classic” procurement (buying,to procurement practices between “Classic” procurement (buying of things) and “Service” procurement,, then the Bill could fail in its attempt to make procurement in Scotland truly sustainable.