E-Procurement

The Council recognises the need to modernise the processes and systems that it uses for its business.

‘E-procurement’ describes the use of electronic systems to acquire goods,works and services from suppliers and to conduct payment transactions.

This includes

• e-sourcing – activities which take place before awarding a contract
• e- procurement – using electronic methods to carry out purchasing transactions
• e-invoicing and e-payment – the use of BACS  and procurement cards for making payments

Increasingly, procurement dealings will be conducted electronically. The Council will increase its use of simple forms of e-procurement for transactions that are low value, low risk and high volume.

Where practical the Council will require consolidated invoices which will be managed and paid electronically.

A detailed e-procurement strategy and implementation plan will be developed to support the Corporate Procurement Strategy.

We wish to promote electronic means of communication e.g email and we will be developing this further.

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