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Strategic suppliers report
Following hot on the heels of the PACAC report “After Carillion” comes the Public Accounts Committee report on Strategic Suppliers. A little more reticent than the PACAC report, it contains equally strong, important and urgent messages:
“The Government is a uniquely powerful player in these markets but has failed to understand or manage the market. Public sector contracts cover a wide range of activities and are provided by a wide range of companies. Government has little understanding about how it influences the market and displays little strategic thinking into how it could, or should, be examining or influencing those markets.”
with a particular mention for Local Government in recommendations for the Cabinet Offices’s role, as suggested in the PACAC report:
“We acknowledge the work of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs (PACAC) Committee and their report on public sector outsourcing and contracting, We concur with their recommendation that the Cabinet Office establish a contracting centre of excellence that can collect best practice and learning and disseminate it across the wider public sector including the NHS and local government.”