Commissioning and Procurement 'Home Page'

Welcome to this special Commissioning and Procurement mini-site. These pages have been designed to give voluntary and community groups in Lambeth up to date information around key developments in commissioning and procurement issues emerging in early 2007.

What is Commissioning and Procurement?
Commissioning and procurement are increasingly vital to the way public services are designed and delivered. Right now statutory partners are seeking to outline a much stronger role for the voluntary and community sector in these areas - as funding for the VCS moves away from traditional grants and closer to private-sector style contracts.

A basic way to understand these agendas is to think of commissioning as ‘shopping’ (i.e. how decisions about which public services should be commissioned are made) and procurement as ‘buying’ (i.e. what processes should be followed in ‘purchasing’ those services, so that the right bodies deliver the services and value for money is ensured).

To explore these issues further and investigate what role your organisation might have in commissioning and procurement, you should attend the Gearing Up conference on 30th January 2007.

Also look out for the 'Supply Lambeth' event on 7th Feb

and the Step Forward conference on 14th Feb.

Commissioning and Procurement Season 2007
Timetable of events

January
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri 8 9 10 11 12

LAA Health and Wellbeing Impact Assessment seminar 15 16 17

LVAC Training Introduction to Commissioning and Procurement 18 19 22 23 24

LVAC Training Commissioning and Procurement in Practice 25 26 29 30

'Gearing up' for Procurement and Commissioning 31
February Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri 1 2 5

LVAC Training Creating Effective Partnerships 6 7

'Supply Lambeth' Meet the buyers procurement event 8 9 12 13 14

Step Forward Conference Good Practice and Partnership Working 15 16 19 20 21 22 23 26

CEN Training: Commissioning and Procurement 27 28

LVAC Training Becoming a Social Enterprse
March Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri 1 2 5

CEN Training: Commissioning and Procurement 6

LVAC Training Becoming a Social Enterprse 7 8 9 12

CEN Training: Commissioning and Procurement 13 14 15 16

LVAC Training Monitoring and Evaluation 19 20 21 22 23 26 27 28 29 30
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