Baseline and Targets

Based on the work of the Government’s Sustainable Procurement Action Plan, a number of targets can be set out that are of direct relevance to your organisation.

The focus of the Plan is to achieve behavioural change, acting through a range of initiatives to enable, encourage, engage and, where appropriate, enforce changes to achieve a more sustainable approach to procurement by public sector bodies:

• Enable - to achieve leadership commitment to sustainable procurement, set clear priorities, develop capabilities, ensure supportive budgetary mechanisms and put in place a competent and active delivery team.

• Encourage - to have incentive systems and internal rewards and to showcase and recognise best practice.

• Engage - particularly through building long-term supplier relations, early involvement with contractors and helping to stimulate innovative approaches to best practice solutions.

• Enforce - ensuring full adherence to relevant legislative or audit requirements, with appropriate sanctions if necessary.