Sign Presentation for Procurement Secure

Sign Presentation for Procurement Later

thanks Ian afternoon everybody and just so I can figure out whether I'm teaching granny to suck eggs all right all right now turn to procurement many people roughly would be on the procurement side here okay about half so there'd be a little bit of this that you'll know already but I i think the kurma is no harm to get a refresher and some of this stuff and anyway and I'm going to go through just some general principles and and then wrap in the national finance regulations and just as Steven talked about terms of the the relationship between the budget holder is the first new used to figure out well what is it we're going to buy and procure up the input of the procurement function terms of facilitating that purchasing process and and the first thing to say in relation to procurement is a procurement is effectively a regulated sector it's not considered like a regulated sector because it doesn't it doesn't behave in the same way as regulated sectors to do so but it is similar to say selling insurance products you can't sell insurance products and unless you've got a license to do so anytime the public sector wants to buy anything but Kermit is relevant so every single time there's a purchasing decision made on anything that's being bought and probably procurement considerations apply at what you're buying what's the value what kind of procedure you're going to use all that stuff as soon as the decision comes into a into your head in terms of a purchasing decision but you have to be thinking right you're probably high that sits in a public procurement environment and that's why I say it's effectively a regulated form of of sector because there are rules which apply to those decisions and relation to those rules there are effectively the external regulated environment which is the EU for the high level or high-value procurements and then there are the national levels in terms of thresholds which apply and then there's the internal environment which is the finance regulations and the rules are in place around that which effectively support and inform the external environment taking a sort of a helicopter view procurement is effectively a subset of competition law and which again is not something people attempted very much focus on it's all about promotion of competition and cross-border trade that's sort of at a very very high level where procurement comes from so the idea is that you have competitions for things and above a certain level you have competitions on an eu-wide basis to make sure that people from other countries are entitled to add a bit for them so a any idea is that there's a uniform set of rules across the EU that allows people to compete on an equal basis and set the EU directives there's a few sort of practical takeaways a procurement a lot of procurement is actually...