Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 2023

39 Annual socially responsible procurement reports

(1) A contracting authority that has awarded any prescribed contracts during a financial year must prepare and publish an annual report on its public procurement as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of that year.

(2) The report must include—

(a) a summary of the public procurement exercises during the year that led to the award of a prescribed contract or were intended to lead to the award of such a contract;

(b) a review of the extent to which all reasonable steps were taken in those public procurement exercises to meet the authority’s socially responsible procurement objectives;

(c) in so far as the authority considers that further steps could reasonably be taken in future public procurement exercises to meet its socially responsible procurement objectives, a statement of how it intends to take those steps;

(d) a summary of the public procurement the authority expects to carry out in the next two financial years;

(e) information of the kind mentioned in subsection (3) that must be specified by regulations made by the Welsh Ministers;

(f) other information as may be specified by regulations made by the Welsh Ministers.

(3) The information referred to in subsection (2)(e) is information that the Welsh Ministers consider they require in order to assess the extent to which—

(a) a contracting authority meeting its socially responsible procurement objectives contributes to the achievement of the well-being goals;

(b) a contracting authority’s public procurement, generally, contributes to the achievement of the well-being goals, for example by—

(i) benefitting the economy of its area, including through the award of contracts to small and medium sized enterprises;

(ii) taking environmental considerations into account;

(iii) taking (other) social considerations into account;

(iv) promoting and facilitating use of the Welsh language.