2.5 The current programme of collaborative procurement seeks to achieve increased value for money from six categories of common goods and services: Professional Services, ICT, Energy, Fleet, Travel and Office Solutions. These six categories collectively cover £49.8 billion of the £89 billion spend in categories bought commonly across government. There is scope for expanding the programme to look at other categories of common spend.
| Recommendation 2.1: Government should extend its current programme of spend to cover new categories of common spend. By October 2009, the Strategic Stakeholder Forum should extend the scope of the Government's current collaborative category programme to include three new categories of common spend: construction, facilities management and food. This will increase the total coverage of the collaborative procurement programme from £49.8 billion to £78.1 billion of the £89 billion spend in categories bought commonly across government. |
2.6 Under an extended government collaborative procurement programme, £78.1 billion of the total £89 billion of government procurement spend that has been categorised to a commonly procured commodity will be subject to a collaborative approach to procurement. The remaining £11 billion comprises categories, which may have potential for future collaboration, including social care, clinical and medical expenditure, operational goods and waste management.
2.7 Table 2.A shows the level of savings, which should be achievable by 2011-12 if the programme were extended along the lines described here and the other recommendations of this workstrand are implemented.
Table 2.A: Estimation of possible savings by the end of 2011-12
| Category | Forecast Delivery by end 2011-12 |
| Energy Fleet Office solutions Travel Professional Services Facilities Management Food Construction Total | £320 million £110 million £280 million £240 million £1,120 million £1,570 million £540 million £90 million £1,460 million £5,730 million |