OGC has published the first three Procurement Capability Review (PCR) reports for the Department for Education and Skills (DfES - as was) the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), along with agreed departmental Improvement Plans and an overview report on key emerging themes from the first tranche.
Procurement Capability Reviews were announced for all Government departments in January 2007 as a key enabler of HM Treasury's Transforming Government Procurement report. Focussing on where a department's money is spent, and how it achieves value from that spend, a PCR provides an independent, strategic view of the overall procurement capability of the organisation and its wider network of agencies, identifying exemplars as well as areas for improvement. The second tranche of reviews is now underway and OGC is committed to delivering 18 reviews by December 2008.
