Procurement

The Empowering the Voluntary Sector project has published a briefing on the Best Value Statutory Guidance. The briefing outlines why it is important, and the impact it is likely to have on voluntary and community organisations. 

Compact Voice have responded to the Open Public Services White Paper, and you can download our response below. While the white paper asks specific questions, our submission provides a response about the consultation exercise, the context in which it was launched, and makes some comments on the text itself.

This guide was produced by the Commission for the Compact (which has since closed). It clarifies how the Compact and Procurement Law relate to each other, through answering some questions about common areas of confusion and concern.

This briefing describes what procurement is, what you need to know about it and what to do if things go wrong.

This report, originally published by the now closed Commission for the Compact, looks at whether the Compact agreement can be used as a framework to help local public bodies and voluntary organisations to improve the way they work together during Participatory Budgeting projects.

This document, produced by the Office for Civil Society and Navca, highlights examples of local public bodies and the VCS successfully working together to manage the impact of public spending cuts.