PART 3

SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
CHAPTER 2

SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE PROCUREMENT DUTY

Procurement strategies

Procurement strategy
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1
A contracting authority must prepare a strategy (a “procurement strategy”) setting out how the authority intends to carry out public procurement.
2
A procurement strategy must, in particular—
a
state how the authority intends to ensure that it will carry out public procurement in a socially responsible way in accordance with section 24(1);
b
state how the authority intends to take all reasonable steps to meet its socially responsible procurement objectives when it carries out public procurement in relation to any prescribed contract;
c
state how the authority intends to make payments due under a contract promptly and, unless this is not reasonably practicable, no later than 30 days after an invoice (or similar claim) is submitted.
3
The Welsh Ministers may by regulations amend subsection (2)—
a
to specify other matters which procurement strategies must address;
b
to reduce the number of days mentioned in subsection (2)(c).
4
A contracting authority must—
a
review its procurement strategy each financial year,
b
make any revisions that the authority considers appropriate from time to time, and
c
publish the strategy, and any revision, as soon as reasonably practicable after it has been prepared or revised.
5
Two or more contracting authorities may fulfil their obligations under this section by preparing a joint procurement strategy.
S. 38 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 48(1)