Key policies and guidance for making sourcing decisions for the delivery of public services, including specific guidance on sourcing consultancy services.
What is the purpose of the Sourcing Playbook?
The Sourcing Playbook aims to provide commercial, finance, project delivery, policy and other professionals with guidelines, rules and principles that will help them to avoid the
most common errors observed in sourcing services, and get more projects right from the start.
The Sourcing Playbook describes what should or shall be done. How things should be done is described in a series of supporting guidance notes referenced out from this document. The refreshed guidance notes are:
- delivery model assessments
- bid evaluation
- Should Cost Modelling
These complement the second addition Outsourcing Playbook guidance notes, which remain up to date and provide the latest guidance on:
- market management
- risk allocation and pricing approaches
- benefit measurement
- resolution planning
- testing and piloting services
- competitive dialogue and competitive procedure with negotiation
- assessing and monitoring the economic and financial standing of suppliers
- approvals
The standards that people should work to are specified within GovS 008 Commercial, GovS 002 Project Delivery and GovS 006 Finance respectively.
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