Procurement in the City of London
This section will provide information on what we purchase,
how we go about purchasing it, what issues we face in purchasing
and most importantly how suppliers can get involved.
For further information on these topics please select one of the
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The City of London
- Employs 3000 staff in 21 departments
- With 300 staff regularly involved in the procurement
process
- 500 in total from admin to management
- There is a mixture of centralised and decentralised
procurement
- Every department responsible for budget, orders contracts
- The City of London’s expenditure on third party goods and
services is approximately £230,000,000 per annum. Approximately
£160,000,000 per annum is spent on trade goods and services with
the remainder spent on grants, staff related expenditure, council
tax and rate refunds. Of the trade expenditure approximately
£77,000,000 per annum is allocated for by centrally controlled
corporate contracts.
City of London Procurement Strategy
The City of London Corporation's Procurement Strategy has now
been updated.
Please download
our strategy (108kb)
City of London’s Supplier Database
The Local Procurement Project team has developed its own
internal supplier database to assist City of London staff in their
procurement activities. To support the aim of the Local Procurement
Project, the database highlights suppliers based in the project’s
target local boroughs (but also includes other suppliers outside
these areas). The supplier database supplements existing methods of
sourcing suppliers.
To add your details to the Supplier Database, please email
localprocurement@cityoflondon.gov.uk.
Additionally, the City of London Corporation is committed to
the Prompt Payment Code.
Feedback
If you have any comments on these procurement pages or
suggestions as to how we can improve them please email
the Strategic Procurement Unit on
cpu@cityoflondon.gov.uk.