National Audit Office a Review of Collaborative Procurement Across the-Public Sector

National Audit Office and the Audit Commission jointly produced this review. It describes the landscape of collaborative procurement across the public sector. Collaborative procurement has long been seen as a way to save money. Collaboration should result in fewer tendering exercises, leading to lower administrative costs, and allow public bodies to concentrate on more specialised purchases that are unique to them. Over half of the bodies surveyed used it in only four of the eight standard commodity categories (energy, vehicle fleet, travel, office solutions, information and communications technology and office solutions)