We would be grateful if you could please answer the following questions:
a. How many dedicated FTE procurement officers do you have within the authority?
b. How many officers have a formal CIPS accreditation and how many are working towards CIPS accreditation
c. What is the total spend of the Authority in the last financial year
d. What percentage of the spend are the Procurement officers able to influence
e. How many Tenders and RFQs do the team handle on average per year (please base this over the last 5 years to take account of the pandemic skew)
f. How (if at all) do you measure the performance of the authority’s procurement officers. Examples might be:
a. Time taken from receiving the first request to purchase to the placement of order,
b. cost reduction / avoidance achieved from first offer to order placement,
c. cost this year compared with last year, or
d. number of requisitions processed
g. Where accounts payable is managed in-house does this function ever sit within the remit of a procurement or commercial specialisation?
h. Do you use any specific metric(s) to govern the size of your procurement team, and if so what are they?