The Elevate approach
Elevate is working closely with the five Local Authority partners for all purchasing activity within the East Lancashire Housing Market Renewal programme. Our role is to facilitate and ensure consistency, and support the process leading up to Local Authorities making their final purchasing decisions on, for example, selection of suppliers. This ensures all purchasing is compliant with Elevate’s procurement strategy and achieves our overall objectives and outputs in line with the Government’s Best Value agenda.
Elevate's procurement strategy
Our strategy is to develop and implement processes to support purchasing activity within the HMR programme in line with the National Procurement Strategy for Local Government. We are paying particular attention to ensuring compliance with current policy on the involvement of local SMEs in public sector procurement, and to our own objectives on social inclusion.
We comply at all times with:
·The National Procurement Strategy for Local Government
·Government policy on race and equality in local government procurement
·Government policy on SMEs in public sector procurement
·EU procurement directives
·Elevate’s regeneration objectives and priorities.
Elevate's procurement objective
Elevate’s objective is to develop shared purchasing processes for the five Local Authority partners. This fully maximises our enhanced buying power and delivers tangible reductions in the cost of key elements of work within the HMR programme.
We also aim to improve Local Authority purchasing performance by sharing best practice and benefiting from each other’s experience. This will improve frontline service delivery and realise savings in line with Government requirements for Pathfinders.
Partner participation
Elevate, five local authorities and preferred East Lancashire supplier partners including sub-contractors and material supply chain are working in core teams to progress key areas of group repair and facelift schemes. This will ensure continued focus on best value, improved performance and capacity building.
For details of the core teams, achievements to date and next steps, click below.
Purchasing team
Key performance team
Category team
Construction consortium
Progress and next steps
News: Partnership working
Elevate held an event bringing together local authorities and group repair suppliers and contractors to launch an innovative partnership way of working. Click here for more.
News: Elevate PPC2000 and Partnering Workshop
Elevate ran a training event on PPC2000 for partner contractors and local authorities involved with Group Repair and Facelift activity.
Click here to see the agenda.
Click here for the workshop presentation.
Click here to see notes from the event.