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.
News: New procurement
Please find below all the relevant documents relating to the OJEU Contract Notice UK - Accrington: construction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual houses and the Bidders Briefing held at Oswaldtwistle Mills Business and Conference Centre on 17 September 2009. Please retain the link to this site and return to this page frequently as additional documents will be uploaded in due course.
Click here to see Elevate OJEU notice
Click here to see amendment to Elevate OJEU notice
Click here to see presentation from Elevate Contractors' Open Day
Click here to see sign-in sheet from Bidders' Briefing.
Click here to see Bidders' Briefing Q&A
Click here to see Strategy for Sustainable Construction
Click here to see Progress Report - Strategy for Sustainable Construction
