Purchasing policy and useful links

Purchasing is the process of acquiring goods, works and services, covering both acquisition from third parties and from in-house providers.

We implement our Procurement Strategies via a series of formal documents.

The Corporate Procurement Strategy, available below, details how it will meet corporate objectives through innovative use of procurement tools.

The Sustainable Procurement Policy, available below, highlights how sustainability issues are addressed through procurement.

Workforce matters, available below, is a document that shows via examples how equalities and work force issues must be taken into account in the procurement process.

From individual departmental service plans the major procurement projects for the future are deployed into a resource planning process to ensure key projects are fully resourced , prioritised and timetabled.

The Central Buying Consortium of which Luton is a member also has specific policies.

There is a National Strategy for Local Government Procurement which is available on the website of the Department for Communities and Local Government - National Strategy for Local Government Procurement (HTML Version)