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Procurement
How the council buys goods and services
Medway Council spends more than £100million each year on a wide
range of goods and services.
The council must ensure that the money it receives from general
taxpayers and council taxpayers is used as carefully as possible
and that it achieves the best value for money. A significant
proportion of the council’s spending is therefore under contracts
which have been subject to reasonable competition.
The council is a member of the Kent Buying Consortium and when
appropriate, joins with other authorities in Kent to undertake
joint contracting. The council also makes use of contracts awarded
by other bodies on behalf of public authorities, such as the
Central Buying Consortium and
the
Office of Government Commerce (OGC) Buying Solutions.
The thresholds set out below apply to requirements for the
external supply of goods, services or works:
- less than £15,000: a single quotation;
- £15,001 to £100,000: a minimum of three quotations;
- £100,001 to £173,934: formal tendering in line with Contract
Rules and Procurement Gateway Process;
- more than £173,934 (for goods or services) or more than
£4,348,350 (for works): formal tendering in line with regulations
implementing European Union legislation.
Medway-based companies
Many of the contracts the council lets are subject to
competition from within and outside Medway. For most of these, the
council is not allowed to give preferential treatment to local
businesses. Even when it is able to do so, normal requirements to
meet best value for money still apply. Merely complying with the
information requested by the council on this site and elsewhere
does not, of itself, guarantee the award of any contract.
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