Procurement

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What is eProcurement?

Electronic commerce is high on most local authorities agenda in their drive towards better commercial relationships and greater efficiency in the purchase to pay process. E-procurement can be defined in a number of ways and does not necessarily require new or high levels of technology. Suppliers to St Albans will not be required to implement expensive systems to continue supplying us, a minimum requirement of an e-mail address will be enough to trade electronically.

  • St Albans is committed to interacting efficiently with members of the public and businesses and we recognise the opportunities e-procurement can offer. Using the internet allows us to make quicker purchasing decisions and prompt payments. Experience in the private sector shows that the performance improvement benefits to the purchasing organisation are matched by a similar set of benefits to the supplier. We aim to be trading electronically with all out suppliers in the future.

Current Council contracts

St Albans City and District contract register, contains contracts which are currently active. Full details are only shown for contracts awarded after tendering procedure since 1 January 2011.

You are free to re-use any information contained on this page, subject to you accepting the Open Government Licence, details can be found on the External Links section of this page.

To ensure we are transparent with our residents, we will be publishing new contract documents on-line.

Contract Register

To see copies of contracts please see our contracts page. New contracts from January 2011 will be published on the contracts page.

In addition, Council spend in individual payments above £500 can be found at Council Spend Over £500

Council Procurement Strategy

This Procurement Strategy sets out the framework and guiding principles to be followed by all staff involved in procurement of goods, services and works.

Date of last review: 06 June 2011