Sustainable Procurement

Monitoring and reporting

Any contracting authority which is required by the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 to produce and publish an annual procurement report must include:

how its procurement complied with the procurement strategy (which in turn requires the authority to state how it intends to ensure its procurements comply with the sustainable procurement duty)
a summary of any community benefit requirements imposed as part of a regulated procurement that were fulfilled during the year covered by the report.

As a means of demonstrating compliance with the sustainable procurement duty, contracting authorities may wish to collect a wider range of data to demonstrate how their contracts improve economic, social and environmental wellbeing; facilitate the involvement of SMEs, the third sector and supported businesses and promote innovation. This would involve noting the category of business that individual contracts are awarded to. This data will be available from the selection stage.

Suggested key performance indicators are included below.

Key contract information:

total value of contract
total value sub-contracted
total value sub-contracted to SMEs
total value sub-contracted to social enterprises
total value sub-contracted to supported businesses

Buyers should consult the statutory guidance under the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 for further information.