Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs written question – answered at on 21 July 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what progress his Department has made in implementing the recommendations of the Glover Report in its procurement processes.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has been engaging with the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) on the Glover report and made the following progress in respect of the recommendations:
We advertise our higher value UK requirements on the FCO website. The portal is being developed by OGC and consideration is being given to advertising on the Supply 2 Gov portal as an interim solution for our UK requirements.
We have been running a pilot of an OGC approved e-tendering system and we expect to meet this recommendation by the deadline.
We already do this for contracts advertised on the FCO website, but using the single portal will be considered in conjunction with the OGC development of the opportunities portal.
We already seek detail of all previous relevant experience, not just that limited to the public sector.
We published our Innovation Procurement Strategy and Implementation Plan on the FCO website on
We encourage greater use of outcome-based specifications.
We have altered our supplier adoption processes to clearly identify small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and enable the collection of SME expenditure data.
The OGC will be rolling out guidance to facilitate the implementation of the remaining Glover recommendations and the FCO will seek to adopt this guidance into its policy and processes in the required time scales.
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