Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014

18 Annual procurement reports

(1) A contracting authority which is required to prepare or revise a procurement strategy in relation to a financial year must prepare an annual procurement report on its regulated procurement activities as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of that financial year.

(2) The report must include—

(a) a summary of the regulated procurements that have been completed during the year covered by the report,

(b) a review of whether those procurements complied with the authority’s procurement strategy,

(c) to the extent that any regulated procurements did not comply, a statement of how the authority intends to ensure that future regulated procurements do comply,

(d) a summary of any community benefit requirements imposed as part of a regulated procurement that were fulfilled during the year covered by the report,

(e) a summary of any steps taken to facilitate the involvement of supported businesses in regulated procurements during the year covered by the report,

(f) a summary of the regulated procurements the authority expects to commence in the next two financial years,

(g) such other information as the Scottish Ministers may by order specify.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2)(a), a regulated procurement is completed when the award notice is published or when it otherwise comes to an end.