Perhaps not the most exciting of subjects to write about, but a good opportunity to share how we’ve been addressing procurement at Stoke-on-Trent City Council in recent years, through a combination of getting local businesses more engaged, and also creating exciting opportunities to bring in new businesses with a willingness to base themselves here.
With an ambitious £750m capital programme, there’s no shortage of great things happening in Stoke-on-Trent, and we’ve used that to our advantage with the Professional Services Framework launched in 2019 - and then built that experience in other frameworks. We’ve also better aligned our corporate priorities with procurement, making social value less of a ‘what would you like to do’, and more of something that means our priorities, in this case improving outcomes for children and young people.
You can read more in this article I wrote for ConservativeHome.
