Procurement strategy: April 2021 to March 2023

8. Annual procurement report

Under the 2014 Act we also have to prepare an annual procurement report to reflect on our performance against our procurement strategy.

The reports include:

• information on regulated procurements that we have completed during the period;
• a review of whether those procurements kept to our procurement strategy;
• if any procurements do not comply with our strategy, a statement of how we intend to make sure that future regulated procurements do;
• a summary of community benefit requirements set as part of a regulated procurement that were met during the financial year covered by the report;
• a summary of any steps we have taken to involve supported businesses in regulated procurements during the year; and
• a summary of regulated procurements we expect to begin in the next two financial years.

We publish our reports online and make sure these are accessible in a variety of formats.