The public sector spends over £14.5 billion a year on goods and services across the public sector. This provides an excellent platform to work with the public, private and third sectors to “deliver procurement that improves public services for a prosperous, fairer and more sustainable Scotland.”

Public procurement is a key partner and enabler to deliver Scotland’s economic strategy. We invest in our people, infrastructure and assets in a sustainable way, encourage innovation, and promote inclusive growth

Legislation has re-enforced the principles of the Scottish Model of Procurement. It maintains the ethos of the public procurement reform programme – business friendly, socially responsible procurement that delivers better outcomes for Scotland.

Our public procurement contracts are amongst the most accessible in the world for micro, small and medium size organisations. We are providing opportunities for Scotland’s small and medium sized enterprises and third sector organisations to benefit through public sector business both domestically and in other countries.

Scotland Excel is recognised by the Scottish Government as the Centre of Procurement Expertise (CoE) for the local government sector. Established in 2008, it is a shared service funded by all 32 Scottish councils and offers its members a range of collaborative contracts, learning and development, consultancy, change management services and commercial expertise.

Its services are designed to support the sustainable delivery of essential public services and generate social, environmental and economic benefits for Scotland’s communities.

Scotland Excel’s £2bn contract portfolio supports the delivery of social care, construction, roads, transport, waste, corporate, education and ICT services, and achieves annual savings of c. £13m to the public sector.

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APUC Ltd (Advanced Procurement for Universities & Colleges) is one of the six Centres of Procurement Expertise formed as a result of the McClelland Review of Public Procurement in Scotland, published in March 2006.

The not-for-profit company was created in January 2007, and is owned by Scotland’s 60 universities and colleges. It operates entirely in the interests of these institutional stakeholders. By working jointly as one team with client institutions, APUC supports the embedding and consistent application of good procurement practice within Scotland's universities and colleges, incorporating EU Directives in the tendering process.

APUC‘s aim is to maximise the contribution that advanced procurement makes to Scotland's investment in teaching, research, and knowledge transfer so that institutions can deliver more with the funds that they have available. Not only does APUC conduct tenders on behalf of their members, it also looks to maximise savings by collaborating with the other consortia and sectors by promoting relevant agreements to their members. In this way, APUC facilitates the TPL agreements to the Scottish Higher and Further Education Sector.

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NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) provides national strategic support services and expert advice to NHSScotland in order to ‘support Scotland’s health’.

NSS National Procurement provides a single procurement service for NHSScotland, using years of experience in procurement in order to achieve the best results for customers and deliver maximum savings.

CCS connects public and private sectors to achieve the best commercial and procurement outcomes for the UK and its citizens.

We are the UK’s central commercial and procurement organisation. We guide public sector buying decisions, using our scale and commercial expertise to achieve best value.

Our people create innovative solutions to public sector challenges, and provide businesses of all sizes with growth opportunities.

This strengthens the economy and society, and supports government missions and policy objectives. We call this value for the nation.