This toolkit has been developed to support delivery of the National Procurement Strategy for Local Government in England 2022. The purpose of the toolkit is to help councils, and groups of councils, to set objectives in relation to the maturity levels in each of the key areas of the strategy and to assess their own progress against those objectives.
 

Showing leadership

• Key area: Engaging councillors
• Key area: Engaging senior managers
• Key area: Working with partners
• Key area: Engaging strategic suppliers

Behaving commercially

•  Key area: Creating commercial opportunities
•  Key area: Managing contracts and relationships
•  Key area: Managing strategic risk 

Achieving community benefits

• Key area: Creating social value
• Key area: Local small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and micro business engagement
• Key area: Enabling voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) engagement 

Enablers

• Adding value
• Developing talent
• Exploiting digital technology
• Enabling innovation
• Embedding change

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