Guidance Documents

Contract and Supplier Management Guidance
Click here for guidance and tools on a standardised approach to Contract and Supplier Management. This includes assessing and selecting a route for the appropriate level of contract management, tools and wording to use in ITT.

Sustainable Procurement
APUC is committed to embedding and effecting advanced sustainable procurement. APUC has developed a suite of sustainable procurement tools to use as well as having policies in place. APUC has also developed 'Sustain', a sector wide collaborative tool used to assess supply chain sustainability. Click here for more details on sustainable procurement including Carbon Reduction guides.

Supplier Guidance
As well as providing guidance and tools to HE and FE sectors, APUC is also committed to working with suppliers to ensure SMEs, supported businesses and third sector organisations are confident in taking part in the bidding process. Click here to find useful guides on tendering and details of forthcoming events.

Procurement Strategy
The Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 has brought a requirement for all public sector bodies with an annual regulated procurement spend over £5m to publish a procurement strategy. Find the template here on how to write a compliant strategy.

Annual Procurement Report Guidance
APUC has provided guidance for institutions required to submit at Annual Report under the Procurement Reform Act. Click here

Counter-Fraud
British Universities Finance Director's Group (BUFDG) developed a Counter-Fraud toolkit which contains HE specific counter-fraud resources. This toolkit can be used by client institutions and the latest version can be accessed from the BUFDG website.

Fraud Awareness eLearning
BUFDG has also provided access to an eLearning course on Fraud Awareness and this has been set up for all APUC staff and includes links to APUC's own policies. The training can be accessed here. Each client institution can set up its own eLearning course by contacting BUFDG directly.

How to run a Mini Competition
Download the APUC leaflet here on how to run a mini competition under a framework agreement.