What kind of e-Procurement technologies could councils be using to buy construction goods and services?
The whole range of e-Procurement technologies could be bought to bear. Procurement cards could be used for example. They reduce the number of invoices going through the finance system. The number of invoices is traditionally high when it comes to buying building materials and moving to procurement card payments would remove some of the thousands of paper-based invoices that are processed each year within an authority. All the costs typically associated with the payment of invoices such as cheques, envelopes and postage will be removed. Plus it is of course environmentally friendly to help remove all the paper normally associated with traditional buying in the construction field. Collaborative eAuctions and eTendering also have their role to play. Q6: NePP has just brought out a report comparing the services of five local authority e-marketplace providers. Why? We’ve created a wide range of products to help local authorities practice successful e-procurement. In the context of the effic
