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
menu items on the left of the screen.
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.
Download the Procurement Strategy
here (105kb)
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.
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.
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Approved
suppliers
- An approved list of suppliers and or contractors is maintained
and is amended as required from time to time by the local
authority. Local businesses may apply to be placed on the list of
approved suppliers for work to be carried out for or on behalf of
the council
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Procurement
- contracts lists
- Provision of a list of contracts for work to be undertaken on
behalf of the local authority that are currently available for
tender, or are coming up for tender.
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Procurement -
contracts management
- Management of contracts for goods or services provided by
suppliers to the council.
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Procurement -
policy
- The procurement process spans the whole cycle from
identification of needs, through to the end of a services contract
or the end of the useful life of an asset.