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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 practice.

RoS seeks to collaborate to achieve these benefits where it makes logical and commercial sense to do so.

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RoS Procurement Department will, though its involvement with Scottish Procurement, work to consolidate and further develop the collaborative procurement and supply relationships within the Scottish Central Government as well as NHS, Higher Education Authorities and Local Authorities.

Working with Suppliers

The Review of Public Procurement in Scotland recognised that “The existence of a base of high quality and cost competitive suppliers is the optimum environment in which to achieve Best Value in procurement expenditure”

RoS has signed up to the Scottish Government Supplier’s Charter for Scottish contracting authorities.  It defines the generic standards which suppliers can expect from contracting authorities and the standards which will in turn be expected of them as suppliers to the public sector.

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• Adequate publicity of contract opportunities;
• Use of a core qualification questionnaire; and
• Provision of tender debriefing to any supplier that requests it.

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