Procurement activity: annual report 2021 to 2022

Footnotes

1 For the purposes of the Act, procurement expenditure is deemed to be significant if it equates to at least £5 million of regulated procurement spend. A regulated procurement is any procurement carried out by a public body in relation to the award of a contract with an estimated value of £50,000 excluding VAT and above for goods and services and of £2 million and above excluding VAT for works.

2 These four categories are identified and defined in more detail in the 2023 to 2028 Public procurement strategy.

3 NHS National Services Scotland annual procurement report for 2021 to 2022.

4 This figure excludes spend with suppliers that were not classed as commercial organisations or as non-trade social care providers, and with whom individual public bodies spent less than £1,000 in aggregate during the year.

5 For more information about the development and use of Scottish Government Input-Output tables please see the Scottish Government website.

6 Business size is a self-reported figure within the Hub, which is why the size of some businesses is not known.

7 City of Edinburgh Council annual procurement report for 2021 to 2022.

8 University of Strathclyde annual procurement report for 2021 to 2022.

9 In previous reports, the business categories were based on the ‘vCode’ classification, which was developed and is owned by the third party supplier responsible for providing the Scottish Procurement Information Hub. Previous iterations of this report drew on the vCode classification to analyse spend with suppliers in different business categories. The coding of suppliers to the different business categories was based on the supplier’s main area of business and not the specific goods and services purchased under any given contract.

10 For more information on the Scottish Government’s position on SMEs, see the Scottish Government website.

11 Note that Figure 4 does not include information on the proportion of all SMEs in Scotland that can be accounted for by the public administration and defence/compulsory social security sector, owing to a lack of data in the Businesses in Scotland dataset about this.

12 This figure will likely reflect an element of double counting. This is because it is likely that at least some suppliers were awarded regulated contracts by more than one public body during that year; these suppliers would therefore be counted more than once.

13 APUC annual procurement report for 2021 to 2022.

14 By “on time”, we mean within the time period set out in the contract terms.

15 Scottish Government annual procurement report for 2021 to 2022.

16 Note that the analysis draws on the postcodes of where suppliers are registered as based, and therefore does not uncover the onward impacts of the spend itself. Therefore, what is being measured is the extent to which public procurement suppliers are based in areas of greater or lesser deprivation.

17 The data on both the proportions of registered private sector businesses operating in Scotland and of total turnover in each of the five SIMD quintiles was accurate as at March 2022.

18 Note that in Figure 9, urban areas include large urban areas, other urban areas, accessible small towns, remote small towns and very remote small towns. Rural areas comprise accessible rural areas, remote rural areas and very remote rural areas.

19 Spend is classed as local if the purchasing authority is based in the same local authority area as the supplier, whereas it is classed as elsewhere if they are in different local authorities. The analysis is dependent on known supplier postcodes, which are matched to the list of postcodes in the local authority area in which the customer is based. The local authority area is defined by the ONS.

20 Transport Scotland annual procurement report for 2021 to 2022.

21 Southside Housing Association annual procurement report for 2021 to 2022.

22 NHS National Services Scotland annual procurement report for 2021 to 2022.

23 Manor Estates Housing Association annual procurement report for 2021 to 2022.

24 For more information, see the statutory guidance underpinning the 2014 Act, which is available on the Scottish Government website.

25 Social Security Scotland annual procurement report for 2021 to 2022.

26 SFRS annual procurement report for 2021 to 2022.

27 For more information, see the Scotland Innovates website.

28 West of Scotland Housing Association annual procurement report.