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Delivery of Lm3 in the North-East

““Procurement Power”Procurement Power”

Julie DavisonJulie DavisonSustainable Procurement OfficerNorthumberland County Council

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Northumberland Story

Lm3 project started in January 2004

Dedicated Project Officer

Responsible to Head of Procurement

Benchmarking survey completed June 2004

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Northumberland Story

Project initiatives to create local opportunities

Identify the opportunities Stimulate the market Work with both private and third sector Liaise with chamber of commerce and

business link

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Northumberland Story Local Successes on some opportunities Food Grass cutting Construction Sandwiches

Non Local Successes on consolidated contracts

Reverse E Tender for stationary

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Balancing the Bucket

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Benefits for Northumberland

Assist in strategic decision and policy making

Benefit to local economy established from model on profile changes

Created catalyst for change and stimulated both local authority action and the local marketplace

Counter balance to Gershon and aggregated buying

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Way Forward for Northumberland Permanent Sustainability officer appointed

Continuing initiatives on procurement opportunities and engaging sme’s

Rebenchmarking and assessing targets

Working with third sector and large private sector companies

Working with Legi successful county/ district lm3 initiative

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Northumberland’s Approach

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NECE Implementation Deliverables

Lm3 benchmark completion for all 25 local authorities in North East

Specific work with major Private sector companies and the Third Sector including Alnwick Garden

Enhanced model created to cater for non public sector including staff and salary costs

Generate regional impact by local producers Working with local authorities who have utilised

Lm3 as a delivery mechanism for LEGI

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NECE Benchmarking Progress

From the 25 NE Local Authorities:

11 Completed and agreed

2 Completed pending reviews

11 in varying progress state

Tasked to complete by October 2007

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NECE Benchmarking Progress

Data consolidated to give regional and sub regional information

RDA provided with substantive aggregate information for regional economic reviews

Each local authority provided with individual model and benchmark evaluation

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NECE Lm3 Way Forward Adoption and implementation plan

proposed for each local authority

Development of sme support from RDA linked to implementation initiatives

rebenchmarking to evaluate and measure change

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NECE Vision of Lm3

Procurement and regeneration jointly working to:

Identify the procurement opportunities

Matching the supplier base

Delivering the change

Achieving 5% on £2.5billion within the North East which is £125 million extra in North East

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A Thought to Consider….

Question – Where will local suppliers be in 5-10 years if we don’t act now?