A team from St Edmundsbury has won a national award recognising outstanding achievement in procurement.
Representatives from the council’s Procurement DR-IVE team were handed the outstanding achievement award on Tuesday night at a gala dinner run by the Society of Procurement Officers in Local Government (SOPO).
The team won their category after helping to save the borough’s Council Tax-payers more than £100,000 by improving the way St Edmundsbury buys goods and services. The team, which is made up of officers working alongside a cross-party mix of councillors, has renegotiated contracts, improved training for the staff who order goods and established close relationships with neighbouring authorities to keep the costs of buying items down.
Mark Walsh, Procurement and Project Manager at the council, said:
“We were delighted to pick up this award, which recognises all the hard work which has gone into improving the way we buy goods and services at St Edmundsbury.”
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Note to editors: DR-IVE stands for Dynamic Review – Innovation, Value, Enterprise. This is a process which looks at how customer service can be improved and costs reduced across all of the council’s services.
ISSUED BY LIZ HEARNSHAW, COMMUNICATIONS UNIT, ST EDMUNDSBURY BOROUGH COUNCIL. Tel 01284 757033. liz.hearnshaw@stedsbc.gov.uk
