About
The Seven Force Strategic Collaboration Programme was established 2015 and is working across the Eastern Region to develop and implement successful collaborative solutions to protect the front-line local delivery of policing.
The police forces that form the collaboration are Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent.
The Programme covers a geographic area of more than 9,000 square miles, serving nearly 8 million residents. This makes it one of the most ambitious police partnership programmes ever undertaken.
The Seven Force Procurement Team is a new shared procurement service supporting the 7 police forces across the east of England. This collaboration is responsible for third party spend of approximately £230m per annum, making the 7 Force Collaboration the second largest police procurement collective after the Metropolitan Police. Procurement influence on this scale has the potential to attract significant financial benefits through market shaping and economies of scale. This also enables 7 Forces to use its buying power to secure wider social, economic and environmental benefits
Procurement Strategy
The Seven Force Strategic Collaboration Programme was established 2015 and is working across the Eastern Region to develop and implement successful collaborative solutions to protect the front-line local delivery of policing.
The police forces that form the collaboration are Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Kent.
The Programme covers a geographic area of more than 9,000 square miles, serving nearly 8 million residents. This makes it one of the most ambitious police partnership programmes ever undertaken.
The Seven Force Procurement Team is a new shared procurement service supporting the 7 police forces across the east of England. This collaboration is responsible for third party spend of approximately £230m per annum, making the 7 Force Collaboration the second largest police procurement collective after the Metropolitan Police. Procurement influence on this scale has the potential to attract significant financial benefits through market shaping and economies of scale. This also enables 7 Forces to use its buying power to secure wider social, economic and environmental benefits
Purpose
This strategy sets out the 7 Force approach to procurement and supplier management and the actions necessary to achieve those. It has been structured into a series of overarching themes.
The Themes are:
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A commercial approach to supply chain management
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High quality & effective sourcing
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Partnerships, collaboration and integration
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Sustainable Procurement (including Social Value)
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The Right Resources
Vision
To enable the delivery of effective and efficient police services and provide support for victims in the eastern region by procuring and managing high quality, value for money contracts.
Values
7 Force Procurement will operate based upon the following values (in addition to wider Police service values and behaviours):
Public service ethos with a commercial brain:
We recognise that as a group of public sector contracting authorities we have to ensure compliance with the Public Contracts Regulations to ensure transparency, non discrimination, proportionality and equity of treatment. However, by applying commercial intelligence to these processes we will deliver better outcomes. Our contracts and supply chain ultimately need to deliver value for money services to end users, within the Police service and to the wider public – by being more commercial in our approach we can ensure that we maximise value for money, which includes the socio-economic impact.
Collaborative:
Wherever possible we will seek to procure on a 7 force basis, harnessing the increased leverage acting as a single customer, and also to deliver more efficiently and effectively.
Innovative:
We will bring market innovation to bear when designing services and procurements.
Customer focus:
Always focussing on our customers’ requirements, engaging early with them to deliver better procurement. We understand that the impact that we have on operational policing and support for victims in the region. We will be responsive to customer requests for advice and assistance.
7 Force Single Procurement Function
Locations
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Bedfordshire
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Cambridgeshire
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Hertfordshire
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Norfolk
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Suffolk
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Essex
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Kent.