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- better utilisation of procurement skills and resources’ greater purchasing leverage through aggregation of spend
- encouraging competition or innovation in markets (thereby providing value for money)
- maximising benefits
- the spread of best practice
Organisations should RoS seeks to collaborate to achieve these benefits where it makes logical and commercial sense to do so.
In the absence of comparable local arrangement, where a requirement can be met and value for money achieved through the use of an existing contract (eg a contract put in place by one of the Centres of Expertise or another collaborative procurement agency), organisations should utilise the existing contract.
Contracting authorities should seek to collaborate wherever possible with the Centres of Expertise.
The aggregation of purchasing spend has the potential to provide significant value and benefit across the public sector. To assist the realisation of these potential benefits, areas of spend or categories have been grouped by sector specific attributes or commonality. These groupings define how and by whom in the national procurement structure, contracts are established for each of the categories.
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