Review of Public Procurement 2002

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This Report on the Review of Public Procurement 2002 is a response to the following terms of reference for a Procurement Review Implementation Team set up by the Minister for Finance and Personnel in February 2001:-

"Having regard to commitments in the draft Programme for Government to "develop and implement proposals to improve Public Procurement", and in the Department of Finance and Personnel's Equality Scheme, to:

consider the findings and recommendations of the Strategic Review of Procurement Policy and of Purchasing Arrangements within the Northern Ireland Civil Service Departments (1999)
identify the scope to use public procurement in Northern Ireland to further local social and economic objectives within the context of current EC and international law relating to procurement; and
make recommendations for implementation to the Minister for submission to the Executive Committee by June 2001, including an assessment of the equality impact of the proposed policy framework for procurement to be adopted by Northern Ireland public bodies.

The Review recommended a number of other new institutional arrangements including the establishment of a Procurement Board, to lead on procurement policy for the Northern Ireland Public Sector, and a network of Centres of Procurement Expertise through which all to public sector procurement should be channelled