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I am looking forward to the next piece it runs on “Category management: a simple guide for our readers”. And so it was that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs published “A plan for public procurement: food and catering”, with the following explanation:
“The plan sets out what standards the public sector and suppliers are encouraged to follow when buying food and catering services.
It proposes a new but voluntary approach, involving use of a balanced scorecard and an e-marketplace, to improve food procurement in the public sector.
The plan focuses on:
This plan is not just relevant to the purchasing habits of Government departments, but schools, local authorities and other public bodies.
A cunning plan?
There are some who might think that the Government is sceptical about social value in public procurement, but this plan is very much the initiative of the recently replaced Secretary of State, Owen Patterson, whose interest in supporting British farmers has led to the most comprehensive piece of work done by the current Government on sustainable procurement.
The plan has three components:
Golden nuggets
All of these publications are readable and contain numerous nuggets. Two of these bear a particular mention:
From this we learn two things: social value is a key Treasury principle and more guidance will be issued (I assume, once the new EU procurement directive has been implemented in UK regulations).
A feast for all
The Defra Procurement Plan does not just mean a more sustainable policy for food and catering. It sets out a template for what the Government might regard as good practice in public procurement as a whole; as such it is a very welcome addition to what had become stores depleted of wholesome help from the UK government. It has been worth the wait.
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