Archive - July 2010
Changes agreed for undertaking PCAs and BPIs
APUC is pleased to confirm that revised arrangements have been agreed with the Scottish Government regarding the Procurement Capability Assessment (PCA) programme and reporting of Best Practice Indicators (BPIs).
APUC has been liaising with the Government on behalf of universities and colleges, to agree a solution that enables these programmes to bring maximum benefit to institutions and resolves the operational challenges these programmes presented, especially for those institutions without significant spend.
Letters to each institution, issued in July 2010, explain how the changes relate to them.
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Procurement Capability Assessments Summary Report is published
The Scottish Universities and Colleges Procurement Capability Assessments Summary Report, published in July 2010, provides an account of the process followed and the outcomes to emerge in the APUC implementation of a Scotland-wide Procurement Capability Assessment (PCA) programme in 2009-10.
PCAs were conducted at the behest of the Public Procurement Reform Programme across all parts of the public sector.
The PCA approach relates procurement funtion and process performance characteristics to attributes that are defined to indicate an overall procurement status for each organisation.
The outputs of APUC's implementation of the PCA programme will provide universities and colleges (individually and collectively) with baselines from which procurement capability improvements over time may be objectively assessed and demonstrated.