Procurement

Overall Goal

Support inclusive economic growth by buying a greater share of our goods and services from London-based micro, small, medium-sized and/or diverse businesses 

Key Deliverables

• Removing barriers for SMEs to access procurement opportunities by simplifying procurement processes and documentation   

• Piloting approaches to increase spend with SMEs including capacity building for smaller businesses through supply chain mentoring.  

• Better promoting procurement opportunities to London’s smaller and diverse-led local businesses 

Work Programme Highlights

• Running a Meet the Buyer event for SMEs to learn how to access our procurement opportunities and enter our supply chains   

• Production of guides for SMEs on public sector procurement and demonstrating social value   

• Simplification of LAIN members’ procurement documentation (terms & conditions) 

• Reserving contracts specifically for SMEs  

• Developing a database of diverse-owned businesses to market procurement opportunities

• Producing e-learning modules for procurement officers and other staff involved in commissioning to raise awareness of procuring from SMEs and how to reduce barriers they face.

Programme Measures

• Overall spend (amount and proportion) - where possible, broken down as follows:     

• Proportion of annual addressible spend committed with SME’s in the financial year  

• Organisation’s total actual spend with SME’s in the financial year. 

• No. and £ of contracts reserved for London-based MSMEs in this financial year     

• No (and £) of contracts awarded to MSMEs in this financial year   

• No (and £) of contracts awarded to diverse-owned businesses in this financial year  

• Number of forward purchasing plans published