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The Sustainable Procurement Tools<\/a> have been designed to help public sector organisations identify and address how they can optimise the economic, social and environmental outcomes of their procurement activity.\u00a0This blog describes a recent update to the Prioritisation Tool and also how Fife Council have used a prioritisation approach to achieve positive procurement outcomes.<\/p>\n

Prioritisation Tool update<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The prioritisation tool is designed to assist early-stage strategic planning through the consideration of economic, environmental and social wellbeing, and brings a standard, structured approach to the assessment of spend categories. Prioritisation can help to ensure appropriate focus on identified priorities within public bodies and category\/commodity planning. It can help inform procurement strategies as well as pre-procurement market engagement.<\/p>\n

In response to user feedback, an enhancement was recently applied to the prioritisation tool giving users the flexibility to focus on a sub-set of the environmental and socio-economic factors. When creating a new prioritisation, public bodies or commodity teams have the option to deselect some of the factors, enabling them to run a targeted version, for example, to focus on specific issues such as climate.<\/p>\n

Fife Council – Prioritising Climate and Procurement<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The latest addition to the Sustainable Procurement Tools website is a case study detailing how Fife Council have used the Sustainable Procurement Tools to identify opportunities to address climate change through procurement, and as a result of this have achieved an improved Procurement and Commercial Improvement Programme (PCIP) score. This approach will help those who have responsibility for key categories and contracts to understand where to focus effort to achieve the most positive outcomes.<\/p>\n

The use of the Prioritisation Tool, available on the Sustainable Procurement Tools<\/a> website, to review commodity categories has ensured a standard, structured approach and identified areas of focus in terms of category and commodity planning.<\/p>\n

The Council\u2019s approach supports the Council\u2019s economic, social and environmental objectives.<\/p>\n

The prioritisation exercise provides:<\/p>\n