Financial spend on Procurement of Consultancy Services
Case reference FOI2019/00793
Published 8 August 2019
Request
Do you use national procurement frameworks to procure consultancy?
a. If so, which frameworks do you use, and what proportion of your consultancy spend over the last 12 months has been on each of the frameworks you are part of.
2. Do you use third party neutral vendors/procurement solution providers (eg ESPO, Bloom, Procurement hub) to procure consultancy? a. If so which do you use, and what proportion of your consultancy spend over the last 12 months has been on each of the vendors you use.
3. Do you use internal frameworks to procure consultancy? (IE frameworks that are not national, that you administer yourselves or share with a small number of other local authorities) a. If so what proportion of your consultancy spend over the last 12 months has been on each of the frameworks you have and when will they expire/re-open for applications.
4. Have you procured consultancy services through your own unique, project specific tender processes? (for example advertising a tender for a specific consultancy piece of work) a. If so what proportion of your consultancy spend was procured through this route, and where do you advertise such opportunities?
5. Have you procured consultancy services through any other mechanisms in the last 12 months? (for example direct awards). If so what proportion of your consultancy spend was this for.
Response
1. Do you use national procurement frameworks to procure consultancy? a. If so, which frameworks do you use, and what proportions of your consultancy spend over the last 12 months has been on each of the frameworks you are part of.
Yes. We use ESPO, G Cloud, CCS Frameworks. We do not currently have the spend data.
2. Do you use third party neutral vendors/procurement solution providers (eg ESPO, Bloom, Procurement hub) to procure consultancy?
Yes.
a. If so which do you use, and what proportion of your consultancy spend over the last 12 months has been on each of the vendors you use.
We use ESPO, CCS, G-Cloud.
We do not currently have data in relation to the proportion of our consultancy spend in the last 12 months in regards to each of the vendors we use.
3. Do you use internal frameworks to procure consultancy? (IE frameworks that are not national, that you administer yourselves or share with a small number of other local authorities)
No.
a. If so what proportion of your consultancy spends over the last 12 months has been on each of the frameworks, you have and when will they expire/re-open for applications.
We do not currently have data on what proportion of our consultancy spend over the last 12 months has been on each of the frameworks.
4. Have you procured consultancy services through your own unique, project specific tender processes? (for example advertising a tender for a specific consultancy piece of work) Yes.
a. If so what proportion of your consultancy spend was procured through this route, and where do you advertise such opportunities.
We do not hold data on this.
We advertise these opportunities on In-Tend and Contracts Finder.
5. Have you procured consultancy services through any other mechanisms in the last 12 months? (For example, direct awards). If so, what proportion of your consultancy spend was this for.
This information is available on the contracts register.
Please see our website, which contains a link to the Contracts Register covering the points requested. This is published quarterly in line with the Transparency Agenda.
https://www.guildford.gov.uk/tendersandcontracts
The Contracts Register is available for download from the website in both Excel and CSV.
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