procurement

It is looking into suspected criminal offences committed over the procurement of PPE.

One of the core ideas is to increasingly focus on joint procurement.

Basis invests in companies such as Civic Marketplace, which is a public procurement platform designed to connect government agencies with service contractors.

In England and Wales a new procurement law mandates companies to spend 10% of the value of major public contracts on "above and beyond" things like training or community projects.

The leader, Stephen Atkinson, said there had to be a focus on "innovation, smart-working, using digital data" and looking at council procurement.