Encouraging innovation in local government procurement report

This review covers goods and services, and examines the innovative aspects of integrating social value into procurement.

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In the environment of reduced budgets, higher user expectations and demand issues and the growing role of procurement in encouraging innovative responses and solutions to these challenges , the National Advisory Group for Procurement (NAG)  agreed, at the beginning of 2016, to establish a working group to make recommendations on the policies and practices that local government could follow to encourage innovative procurement. This review covers goods and services, and also examines the innovative aspects of integrating social value into procurement.