Purchase Spend Analysis

Gary Amos from Salford City Council is leading a small group looking at Purchase Spend Analysis. The group will consider the various options available to the North West, and recommend a suitable approach. The results of this work will be available by early October.

Should you wish to feed any comments or suggestions to Gary, please e-mail him on gary.amos@salford.gov.uk.

Alternatively contact Olly Baker at the Centre who will forward any comments olly.baker@tameside.gov.uk

EU Procurement Directive

The North West Centre of Excellence are considering holding an event regarding the new EU Procurement Directive, which would include, amongst other things, expert speakers and a question and answer session. This is something that has been suggested at several Workstream meetings.

If you would be interested in attending such an event, please contact the Centre as soon as possible - nwce@tameside.gov.uk

Audit of existing collaborations

The first draft of information leading from the audit being undertaken by Sarah Bellis-Jones is now available and can be viewed by following this link - www.nwce.org.uk/Collaboration-returns.xls. This is a first draft, and it is a dynamic resource, which will reflect the progress of the collaborations. Lead authorities are asked to keep us informed of changes and developments. Please check for completeness.

The next update will be available next Friday, 26th August.

For a full brief of Sarah's work and to view the questionnaire, please follow these links: -

www.nwce.org.uk/audit-brief.doc
http://www.nwce.org.uk/collaboratives-return.xls