The Achieving Excellence Initiative for Northern Ireland

The Achieving Excellence Initiative for Northern Ireland  aims to make the public sector client a best practice client when procuring construction projects and services. The purpose of this Paper is to set out its background, summarise the key action areas of its Client Improvement Plan and introduce its Implementation Programme.

You can also download:

The Achieving Excellence (AE) Champion Report

A downloadable MS Word template document to be completed bi-annually by the AE Champions in order to provide information for the reports to the Permanent Secretaries Group and the Procurement Board.

The National Audit Office (NAO) Maturity Matrix

A downloadable MS Word template benchmarking tool to be used by the AE Champions in order to monitor their organisation’s standard of procurement against the GCCG Action Plan.

More information and help

OGC Achieving Excellence Guides

PDF copies (available to download) of the Office of Government Commerce's Achieving Excellence Guides.